A familiar story in Germany where failings of the traditional parties have caused voters to look elsewhere for extreme alternatives...
'But all the signs are it was too little, too late. In a series of extraordinary election results in the past month, it seems German voters are turning to populist parties.
The controversial Alternative for Germany (AfD) — labelled by critics the ‘most successful Right-wing party since the ****s’ — has won mayoral elections in Raguhn-Jessnitz and Sonnenberg in the east of the country in recent weeks, prompting the Central Council of ***s to say nervously: ‘This is the bursting of a dam.’
Recent polls put the AfD, with its anti-immigration manifesto, at almost 20 per cent. That puts it ahead of Scholz’s own party, which currently stands at 19 per cent, and only 7 per cent behind Angela Merkel’s Christian ********ic Union (CDU) with its conservative political ally.'