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German coalition clings on as AfD wins state election
The Independent
|September 03, 2024
Far-right party claims that victory gives it mandate to govern
The far right's first victory in a German state election in the post-war era prompted soul-searching in Berlin yesterday, but Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s battered and unloved coalition looked as if it would hold together.
All three parties in Scholz’s centre-left coalition suffered painful losses while the nationalist Alternative for Germany (AfD) and a new anti-establishment populist party secured record gains in the eastern states of Thuringia and Saxony. Mr Scholz, a Social Democrat, described the results as “bitter” but finance minister Christian Lindner rejected suggestions that his neoliberal Free Democrats (FDP), who fared the worst of all coalition partners, should quit the government.
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