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Europe’s centre fears nationalist wave after AfD victory but only has itself to blame
Saxony-Anhalt win part of wider trend driven by mainstream policy failures and gradual normalisation of far right ideas Europe live – latest updates The numbers speak for themselves: Alternative für Deutschland (AfD), a party that dabbles in Nazi imagery, distinguishes between “biological” and “passport” Germans, and is too extreme even for France’s far-right leader Marine Le Pen, nearly doubled its score in Sunday’s state election in Saxony-Anhalt to 43.8% of the vote. Meanwhile, the centre-ri…
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