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Chancellor-designate Friedrich Merz (CDU) is standing in the Bundestag election for Chancellor. CDU leader Friedrich Merz has failed the first round of voting in the Bundestag election for Chancellor.
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Friedrich Merz fails to secure chancellorship in shock vote

Christian Democratic Union leader Friedrich Merz did not become Germany’s chancellor as planned on Tuesday after at least 18 members of his coalition either abstained or voted against him.

​Attendees of Germany's Alternative for Germany (AfD) campaign event for the Saxony state elections leave, as counter protestors stand in the background, in Dresden, Germany, August 29, 2024.
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Immigration backlash to boost populists in Germany’s local elections

Populist opposition parties of the right and the left are set to make big gains in local elections in two key eastern German states this Sunday.

​Alice Weidel and Tino Chrupalla, chairs of the AfD parliamentary group, comment in the German Bundestag on the ruling of the North Rhine-Westphalian Higher Administrative Court on the classification of the AfD as a suspected right-wing extremist organization.
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Court ruling: “Germany can spy on the AfD”

A German court ruled Monday that the country’s domestic intelligence agency, BfV, was correct to designate the Alternative for Germany, aka AfD, one of the country’s most popular political parties, as a suspected extremist group, making state surveillance of its activities legal.

​A demonstrator holds a sign reading "Hate makes you small" at a rally organized by the German Trade Union Confederation on "For Democracy and Solidarity" on Jan. 27, 2024.
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A black eye for Germany’s far right

Public support across Europe for populists identified as “far right" has captured plenty of headlines – we’ve seen it in different forms in every major country in Europe. But less media coverage is devoted to the political backlash these parties sometimes provoke when their opponents can argue they’ve gone too far. That’s real too.

AfD holds "Future for Germany" rally in Erfurt.
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Why is Germany’s far right surging?

The recent rise of the AfD has a lot to do with the uncertain state of German politics after Angela Merkel.

What's going on with the far right in Germany?
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What's going on with the far right in Germany?

Despite an ongoing pandemic, nearly 40,000 people recently poured into the streets of Berlin to express outrage at the government's handling of the crisis. Many observers interpreted the mass protests as a show of strength by Germany's far-right movement. But is this really a sign of the growing prominence of the far right, or are there other dynamics at play?





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