Two parties with anti-immigrant policies are making gains in eastern states
Leftist politician Sahra Wagenknecht greets supporters in Berlin. Her party, the BSW, is making strong gains in eastern Germany . Photograph: Sean Gallup/Getty ImagesIn a first for Germany , two extremist parties have secured majority support in two eastern states that elect new parliaments in September.Over the border in Thuringia, meanwhile, the BSW has 21 per cent, seven points behind the AfD on 28 per cent.
Serving soldier who beat woman unconscious and boasted about it on social media gets suspended sentence The latter’s policies – nationalist, anti-Islam and anti-immigrant – place it on the far right of the political spectrum. It isThe BSW says the party will not co-operate with the AfD in government, and fired a regional leader last week for suggesting otherwise. “However, we will no longer participate in voting against every AfD proposal on principle if the contents make sense,” said Christian Leye, BSW general secretary.
Speculation about the AfD and BSW, and their voters coalescing over such hot button issues, has revived talk of a potential “horseshoe effect” in German politics.
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