The far-right Alternative for Germany could become the strongest party for the first time in two state elections Sunday in eastern Germany.
Supporters of the far-right Alternative for Germany, AfD, attend an election campaign rally of the party in Suhl, Germany, Aug. 13, 2024. The pennant in center reads"The East does it". for the first time in two state elections Sunday in eastern Germany, while a months-old party founded by a prominent leftist also hopes to shake up the picture as the national government has squabbled its way to deep unpopularity.at bay in Saxony and Thuringia, home to around 4.1 million and 2.
Scholz said recently that “gun smoke from the battlefield” is masking the successes of his government of uneasy allies, which set out to modernize Germany. Justice Minister Marco Buschmann said that the government isn't a “self-help group.” One of the Greens' national leaders, Omid Nouripour, described the coalition as a “transitional government.”
The mainstream opposition Christian Democratic Union, or CDU, won the European Parliament election. It has led Saxony since German reunification in 1990 and hopes that governor Michael Kretschmer can power it past AfD again, as he did five years ago. In Thuringia, surveys show it trailing AfD, but it hopes to cobble together a governing coalition.of governor Bodo Ramelow has slumped into electoral insigificance nationally.
That doesn't look likely in Saxony and Thuringia, where no other party wants to join it in a coalition. The domestichas AfD's branches in both states under official surveillance as “proven right-wing extremist” groups. Its leader in Thuringia, Björn Höcke,Depending on how badly the national governing parties perform, that could leave the CDU looking for improbable coalition partners.
The CDU's national leader, Friedrich Merz, told the RND newspaper group that “we can't work with” AfD.Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.
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