AMY VERDUN. What to Make of the Win of the AfD in Germany? (Australian Outlook 13-9-19
September 18, 2019
On 1 September 2019, the German far right-wing political party, Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) had a historical win in state elections. It won 28 percent of the votes in Saxony and 24 percent of the votes in Brandenburg — the state that surrounds Berlin — gaining respectively 18 and 12 percentage points compared to the last elections that took place in 2014.