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European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen mocked the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party's European parliamentary election campaign launch, which has been overshadowed by spying scandals and suspicions of foreign influence-buying. The AfD's lead candidate, Maximilian Krah, sat out the campaign launch event on Saturday, less than a week after a top aide to Krah was arrested on allegations of spying for China. Krah himself is currently the subject of a preliminary investigation

Opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya believes that the parliamentary elections in Belarus on Sunday will have nothing to do with democracy. "It is a farce, it is a show, it is a circus, but it is not an election," she said on Thursday at a meeting with representatives of member states of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) in Vienna. Under Belarus' long-time ruler Alexander Lukashenko, political opponents have ended up in prison or fled abroad, said the exiled p

Germany is seeing an ongoing wave of protests against the far right. New alliances are also emerging in the state of Thuringia, in the country's east.

Bavarian State Premier Markus Söder is the dominant figure in both his state and his party. He may yet harbor ambitions for Germany's top job.

The German Greens have been abused on the campaign trail in Bavaria and have had to defend unpopular federal policies. And yet they believe they're on course for a relatively healthy election result.