Alternative for Germany is hoping for a day of triumph in the elections in the east of the country.
The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) is facing local elections that began this Sunday in two of the most powerful states in eastern Germany, and exponents of the former German Democratic Republic, such as unrivaled favourite in Thuringia and in a situation of technical ties with the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) in Saxony.
Just like five years ago, the CDU and the AfD are standing side by side in the polls in Saxony, an election marked by the rise of the party founded by German politician Sahra Wagenknecht.
His formation, the Alliance for Reason and Justice, has become the third political force in the polls (with 15% of the vote) with a discourse ranging from communist economic policies to the anti-immigration rhetoric of the AfD itself.
Wagenknecht’s alliance is also in third place in the polls in Thuringia with 17% of voting intention, but far from the 30% allocated to the AfD (the CDU remains at 22%).
The AfD’s leading candidate for Thuringia and standard-bearer of the most extremist section, Björn Höcke, was investigated because he had said the following during a political rally in the city of Gera in December: Nazi motto “Alles für Deutschland”“Everything for Germany”, used in the 1930s by the Assault Section (SA), the paramilitary branch of the National Socialist Party of Germany (NSDAP), Adolf Hitler’s party.
Source: EITB
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