AfD becomes first far-right party to win German state election …
WEBSep 2, 2024 · The party’s lead candidate in Thuringia, Björn Höcke, was convicted earlier this year after breaking German laws against uttering Nazi slogans in public.
Life imitates art as populists collapse Thuringia parliament
WEB1 day ago · Last Thursday, meanwhile, the populist, far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) collapsed the inaugural sitting of the state parliament in the eastern state of Thuringia. The party took 31.8 per ...
German leaders react to far-right surge in Thuringia, Saxony
WEBSep 2, 2024 · The far-right AfD emerged as strongest party in Thuringia, and a close second in Saxony in Sunday's votes. The newly-formed populist left-wing party BSW also scored well in both states. All three...
Eastern German legislature elects mainstream ... - Associated Press …
WEB18 hours ago · Lawmakers have elected a mainstream conservative as speaker of the state parliament in eastern Germany’s Thuringia region, putting aside a convention that the strongest party gets the job after the far-right Alternative for Germany won a regional election for the first time. ... The Associated Press is …
German far-right party wins a state election for the first ... - NBC …
WEBSep 2, 2024 · Germany’s far right has won the most votes in a state election for the first time since the Nazi era, in a major rebuke of Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s ruling center-left coalition.
Lawmakers in Germany's Thuringia convene for first time since
WEB2 days ago · Bodo Schackow/dpa. The new state parliament in the central German state of Thuringia convened for the first time on Thursday following elections in which the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD ...
German far right AfD hails 'historic' election victory in east - BBC
WEBSep 1, 2024 · Germany's anti-immigration Alternative for Germany (AfD) is celebrating a "historic success", with a big victory for the far-right party in the eastern state of Thuringia.
East Germans Lean Toward Extremes in State Elections
WEBSept. 1, 2024. The far-right Alternative for Germany was on course on Sunday to become the strongest party in a state election for the first time, in Thuringia, and it was running a close second...
Germany: AfD becomes first far-right party to ... - Associated Press …
WEBSep 2, 2024 · BERLIN (AP) — The Alternative for Germany party’s success in two state elections piled new pressure on Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s fractious government and left the country’s conservative opposition facing political contortions on Monday to find a way to govern a pair of eastern regions without involving the far-right party.
Gains but no triumph for a far-right German ... - Associated Press …
WEBMay 27, 2024 · BERLIN (AP) — The far-right Alternative for Germany made gains but failed to secure outright victories in local elections in an eastern state where the party is strong and its regional leader, one of the party’s best-known figures, was recently convicted of knowingly using a Nazi slogan in a speech. Sunday’s elections at county and ...