Far-right gains in Germany’s Saxony-Anhalt election have triggered alarm as the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) now eyes victories in upcoming polls for Berlin and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, deepening political unease. Protesters gathered at Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate to reject the party’s anti-immigrant and pro-Russian policies, including its push for mass deportations and cuts to climate and public media funding. The AfD’s rising influence has sparked fears of further polarization ahead of critical regional elections. Demonstrators framed their rally as a defense of democracy against what they describe as an existential threat.
Alarm that Berlin and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania may fall next after party’s Saxony-Anhalt election victory‘It breaks my heart’: victory sparks dismay Europe live – latest updatesThousands of Germans have staged protests against the far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) after the party’s watershed victory in a state election, warning it posed a danger in two more polls this month.Demonstrators at Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate held a peaceful pro-democracy rally denouncing the anti-immigrant, pro-Russian AfD, which has called for mass deportations of asylum seekers and a rollback of state support for renewable energy and public broadcasting. Continue reading...
