Politics
Far-Right AfD Wins Third State Election in Germany
Deutsche Welle · 5 days ago · Read the Full Story on Deutsche Welle
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The far-right Alternative for Germany party won a plurality of votes in the northeastern state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, fueling calls for Chancellor Friedrich Merz to resign.
- The far-right party Alternative for Germany won 38 percent of the vote in the northeastern German state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.
- AfD state leader Leif-Erik Holm asserted that Chancellor Friedrich Merz will not remain in office by the end of the year following a series of electoral defeats.
- The center-right CDU received only 4.9 percent of the vote in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, missing the five-percent threshold to enter parliament and marking its worst result since 1945.
- The CDU also faced defeat in Berlin, where it was outperformed by the far-left 'Die Linke' party.
- AfD co-leader Tino Chrupalla stated that his party has crushed the CDU and that Merz should have resigned long ago.
- AfD co-leader Alice Weidel claimed her party is replacing the CDU as Germany's true people's party.
- The German Office for the Protection of the Constitution classifies the AfD as an extremist party.
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