POTSDAM (Germany), Sept 22 — Germans began casting ballots today for a regional election in a formerly communist eastern state where the far-right AfD party is narrowly ahead in...
All eyes on Germany as far-right AfD seeks new win in regional poll today that may threaten unpopular coalition govt
A victory in Brandenburg, which surrounds the capital Berlin, would deliver another setback to Scholz’s Social Democrats , the centre-left party that has ruled the state since Germany’s reunification in 1990. In the long run-up to national elections in September 2025, the opposition conservatives of the CDU-CSU alliance last week selected their party leader Friedrich Merz as their top candidate.
But Woidke, in office for over a decade, has thrown down a challenge to voters by saying he will quit if the AfD wins. The decade-old AfD has stoked and capitalised on public fears about irregular migration after a string of recent extremist attacks with suspected Islamist motives.
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