Far-right success in German votes piles new pressure on Scholz’s coalition
The Alternative for Germany party’s (AfD) success in two state elections has piled new pressure on Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s fractious government.
The success has left Germany’s main opposition party facing political contortions to find a way to govern a pair of eastern regions without involving the far-right party.
AfD became the first far-right party to win a state election in post-war Germany in Thuringia on Sunday under one of its hardest-right figures, Bjorn Hocke.
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