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In ex-GDR, Merkel's party under threat from AfD

2021-06-04T20:00:30.844Z


The final test before the legislative elections, Sunday's ballot in Saxony-Anhalt will show the balance of power between the right and the far right.


The contempt of Angela Merkel, the complaints against immigrants, the economic difficulties, the fatigue of the "

old parties.

", The anger at the measures against the Covid and the feeling of abandonment ... all these feelings were mixed, Thursday evening, on the market place of Aken, where the AfD organized its penultimate meeting before the regional elections of Land of Saxony-Anhalt.

Surrounded by post-Soviet industrial landscapes, this sleepy little town of the former GDR concentrates the evils traditionally associated with these German regions which, thirty years after reunification, have still not caught up with the West.

It is here that the far right intends to achieve its best scores in this regional test ballot scheduled for Sunday, the last before the legislative elections of September 26.

Here, it follows the CDU in the polls.

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Source: lefigaro

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