AfD's (Alternative for Germany) top candidate for the state elections in Thuringia, Bjoern Hoecke, reacts on stage during an election campaign event in Erfurt, eastern Germany, on October 26, 2019.

A supporter of the far right AfD is shown at an election rally in Dresden, Germany, before state elections on August 29, 2024. The AfD has opposed Berlin's support for Ukraine.

That is what happened in Thuringia in state elections last October, when the AfD doubled to its share to 23.5 percent and finished second, ahead of Ms. Merkel’s conservatives.. The winners ...

The far-right AfD party has doubled its share of votes in state elections in eastern Germany’s Thuringia, led by controversial figure Björn Höcke.

Germany in 2020 is not Germany in 1933. But German politics have shifted in recent years in a disturbing way. Centrists and the far right share talking points on immigration.

Germany's main opposition conservative party hopes to keep Alternative for Germany at bay in Saxony and Thuringia, home to around 4.1 million and 2.1 million people, respectively.

Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s ruling coalition was punished in two regional elections in eastern Germany on Sunday, with populist parties on the extreme right and left taking more than 60% of the ...