Day: February 23, 2025

The leader of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) hailed the party’s election result Sunday after exit polls gave it a record 19.5 to 20 percent of the vote.

“We have achieved a historic result,” the party’s top candidate Alice Weidel told cheering supporters at the AfD’s election night party in Berlin, adding that the anti-immigration party was now “firmly anchored” in the political landscape.

Gunnar Beck, a member of the AfD party, joins us for an elections results analysis.
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When voters cast their ballots on February 23, 2025, they won’t directly elect the next German chancellor. Instead, they will elect politicians to the Bundes…

Part of the German electorate is concerned about Elon Musk’s support for the far-right AfD party and the new political order in Germany that can be inferred from these elections.France24 Europe Editor Armen Georgian, reporting from Berlin, tells us more.
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