German far-right party predicted to make gains in regional election
Surveys have the AfD neck-and-neck with Chancellor Angela Merkel’s CDU.
Source: thejournal.ie
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Surveys have the AfD neck-and-neck with Chancellor Angela Merkel’s CDU.
Best known as an anti-migrant party, Germany's far-right AfD has seized on the coronavirus pandemic to court a new type of voter ahead of regional elections in the state of Saxony-Anhalt on Sunday: anti-shutdown activists. "Sending so many people into poverty with so few infections is problematic for us," is how Oliver Kirchner, the AfD's top candidate in Saxony-Anhalt, views the measures ordered by the government to halt Covid-19 transmission....