Paid articlePaywallGermany’s party system is coming under unprecedented strain:
Forming governments after the eastern state elections looks nightmarish
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OpinionThe fall of Germany’s firewall: Mainstream parties are edging toward cooperation with political extremes
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The Spectator Nov 08
Paid articlePaywall Germany’s mainstream parties are on the brink of oblivion: The problem for Schwesig is that, like Kemi Badenoch here in Britain, she’s far more popular than her ...
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How Badly Will the AfD Email Hack Hurt the German Far Right?: The disclosures, some of which directly contradict the party’s public statements ...
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Germany's firewall against the far-right AfD feels the heat: Chancellor Friedrich Merz's warning this week that extremism was entering Germany's parliamentary ...
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Key FactsAfD Puts Germany’s Political Firewall Under Pressure
Oct 10, 2026 · Reading time: ~45 sec.
Summary created with AI assistance · Source: reuters.com
Summary created with AI assistance · Source: reuters.com
- Merz’s coalition with the Social Democrats is increasingly strained by policy disputes and declining poll numbers.
- Because the ballot was secret, suspicion focused on Saxony-Anhalt’s 15 CDU lawmakers told to abstain.
- AfD candidate Tobias Rausch won 48 votes, four more than the AfD and BSW jointly hold in seats.
- Government formation remains unclear because the AfD lacks three seats for a majority and BSW coalition talks stalled.
Today is about the survival of democracy. We must stand up for what remains important.— President Frank-Walter Steinmeier; remarks marking the anniversary of German reunification warning about the political climate and the risk to democracy.
The crumbling firewall: Why German democracy faces its sternest test: Germany’s firewall against the far right survived September’s state elections ...
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OpinionIs Germany’s Firewall Collapsing?: Jan-Werner Mueller explains how—and how not—to interpret the far right’s recent victories in state elections.
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Far-right win in state election tests Germany's political firewall: One small party could decide whether AfD governs.
axios.com/2026/09/06/afd-saxony-anhalt-germany-far-right-firewall
Opinion5 Hard Truths After AfD Wins German State Election: Saxony-Anhalt’s result exposes five separate problems: for Merz, Ukraine, the firewall ...
newsweek.com/afd-germany-election-saxony-anhalt-hard-truths-12410999
How did the far-right AfD move from Germany’s fringes to becoming a mainstream power?
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dpaq.de Sep 03
What would a far-right win in Saxony-Anhalt mean for Germany and Merz? ｜ DPA: The prospect of the far right taking power in a German state for the first time ...
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Germany’s firewall was meant to hold the far right at bay. It may have done the reverse
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Far-right gains in east Germany could deal blow to economy: After elections in Thuringia and Saxony, the far-right AfD party has again massively gained in a poll ...
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In Germany, Scholz’s Party Ekes Out Win Over Far Right: The narrow win by Olaf Scholz’s party came in a state election, the third in a series that was seen as a ...
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The German far right and the scars of reunification: More than three decades after the end of communist rule, the victory of the AfD in a state election in the ...
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Shades of 1933 in German state elections: Opinion: The Solingen attack and state elections in Thuringia and Saxony will have far-reaching political implications ...
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Germany: Scholz laments 'bitter' Saxony, Thuringia votes: German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said it was a "bitter" election night for his center-left SPD ...
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Takeaways From East Germany’s State Elections: The far-right Alternative for Germany, or AfD, had a very successful night in two states ...
nytimes.com/2024/09/02/world/europe/east-germany-elections-afd.html
Far-right party wins German state election, piling new pressure on Scholz: Alternative for Germany party snags victory in central Germany's Thuringia ...
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A German far-right party wins its first state election and performs strongly in a second
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dpaq.de Aug 31 24
Protest against German far-right AfD in state capital ahead of poll ｜ DPA: Some 3,000 people took part in a protest action against the far-right Alternative for ...
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