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# afd

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# Germany
Polls open in Germany as right wing anti-migrant party looks set to make gains
The far-right anti-immigration AfD looks set to make gains on Merkel’s CDU party.
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Jun 6th 2021, 12:06 PM
# Germany
German far-right party predicted to make gains in regional election
Surveys have the AfD neck-and-neck with Chancellor Angela Merkel’s CDU.
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Jun 2nd 2021, 7:21 AM
# Thomas Kemmerich
German state premier quits after far right voting pact sees him elected
Angela Merkel called yesterday’s vote “a bad day for democracy” .
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Feb 6th 2020, 6:33 PM
# afd
Far-right party makes major gains in German state election
Bjoern Hoecke previously labelled Berlin’s Holocaust memorial a “monument of shame”.
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Oct 28th 2019, 9:22 AM
# Brexit
Jacob Rees-Mogg defends sharing video of German far-right leader's speech
The Tory MP said it was not an endorsement, he was simply “pointing out something interesting which is worth watching”.
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Apr 1st 2019, 4:03 PM
# afd
Co-leader of far-right party quits just hours after German election breakthrough
Citing “dissent” with more hardline colleagues, Petry dropped her bombshell at a morning party press conference.
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Sep 25th 2017, 12:35 PM
# afd
'Stop the Nazis': Protests in Germany as far-right party secures 13% of national vote
World Jewish Congress President Ronald Lauder described AfD’s success as “abhorrent”.
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Sep 25th 2017, 7:40 AM
# Mutti
Angela Merkel will lead Germany once more but the far-right delivers strong third place
Election exit polls show Merkel on course for a fourth term.
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Sep 24th 2017, 5:32 PM
# berlin attack
Far-right leader says Germany 'has to close its borders'
Frauke Petry, who leads the anti-immigration Alternative for Germany party, has hit out at Angela Merkel.
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Dec 21st 2016, 3:45 PM
# Election
Angela Merkel's party suffers bruising loss in Berlin elections as far-right party gains
Merkel is facing anger from German citizens over her open-door refugee policy.
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Sep 18th 2016, 7:09 PM