A Far-Right Win Puts New Pressure on Germany’s Leader (Gift Article)

AfD’s Far Right Win Puts New Pressure on Germany’s Leader Merz (Gift Article) Antipathy to Chancellor Friedrich Merz was a reason the far right surged in a state election. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/08/w...

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A Far-Right Win Puts New Pressure on Germany’s Leader

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Saxony-Anhalt, where the Alternative for Germany party, AfD, won nearly 44 percent of the vote and now sits on the cusp of becoming the first far-right party to govern a German state since the end of World War II. Far-Right Win Puts New Pressure on Germany’s Leader www.nytimes.com/2026/09/08/w...

A chancellor intimidated by a 2.1-million state stuck in GDR nostalgia has already failed, his own capital alone holds nearly twice that population. Merz should govern by conviction, popular or not. Otherwise the AfD has already won more than any election could give it.

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