Not just the CDU: How German parties in the East are doing politics with the AfD. “Fascism is literally at their doorstep,” warns the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation (RLS) “We expect to see more such cooperation in the upcoming local elections in June 2024,’ says Steven Hummel, education officer at the RLS.

The most common form of cooperation was joint voting, in most cases at the initiative of the Afd. The main cooperation partner of right-wing parties at the local level was theCDU (52 cases) But the FDP (22), SPD (13), the Left (10) and Alliance 90/The Greens (5)