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In the recent German federal state elections held on September 1, 2024, the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party achieved significant victories in both Saxony and Thuringia.  __________ In Thuringia the AfD emerged as the leading party, obtaining approximately 32.8% of the vote, making it the first far-right party to win a state election in Germany since the 1930s.  The Christian Democratic Union (CDU) followed with about 23.6%, while the Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance (BSW) secured third place with 15.8%.  The Social Democrats (SPD) only garnered around 6%, and the Greens 3.2%. The Greens, who are a coalition member of the incumbent German federal government alongside the Social Democrats and the Free Liberals, failed to meet the 5% threshold needed for representation in the state parliament. In Saxony, the CDU maintained a narrow lead with approximately 31.9% of the vote, closely followed by the AfD at around 30.6%. The BSW came in third with about 11.8%. The SPD ...

“Millions of migrants from other cultures challenge the foundations of our community, the unwritten rules of coexistence, and thus national identity itself,” wrote the German politician Alice Weidel in her 2019 book “Counter-arguments. Thoughts about Germany” (German: “Widerworte. Gedanken über Deutschland”). Weidel is the co-chairwoman of the far right party Alternative for Germany (Alternative für Deutschland, AfD) and the leader of the AfD parliamentary group in the Bundestag, the lower house of Germany's federal legislature. In recent years, the AfD has gained significant support and influence in German politics. The party was founded in 2013 as an anti-euro movement, but later shifted increasingly towards right-wing extremism.   Alice Weidel in 2019.  Sandro Halank , CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons The AfD surged to 24% in a January 2024 YouGov poll, trailing only the Christian Democrats (29%), and ahead of the Social Democrats (15%) and the Greens (12%). On January ...

On May 4 Sawsan Chebli , a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) and Berlin State Secretary, posted a tweet that was later deleted by Twitter for allegedly violating the platform's new rules regarding election manipulation. "My father's name was Mohammed. My name is Sawsan Mohammed Chebli. My oldest nephew's name is Mohammed. My niece gave her son her grandfather's name. Shortly: We will make sure that this name never disappears!" wrote Chebli on her Twitter profile.  #Servicetweet für die #AfD : Mein Vater hieß Mohammed. Ich heiße Sawsan Mohammed Chebli. Mein ältester Neffe heißt Mohammed. Meine Nichte hat ihrem Sohn den Namen ihres Opas gegeben. Kurzum: Wir werden schon dafür sorgen, dass dieser Name nie verschwindet! pic.twitter.com/HPkVwkJIWH — Sawsan Chebli (@SawsanChebli) May 4, 2019 Her tweet was expressly directed at the far-right party Alternative for Germany (AfD). The AfD has called asylum and immigrat...