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The German Journalists' Association (DJV) has decided to boycott the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, dpa has learned, a move that comes just weeks ahead of elections in several German states that could see the AfD come out on top. According to a position paper issued by the DJV's federal board and made available to dpa, the union states it won't "hold political discussions with representatives of anti-constitutional parties or groups" regardless of their elected positions. Nor will DJV representatives be sent to events initiated or controlled by anti-constitutional parties and o...
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The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) has set a target of 40% or more of the vote for the elections to the regional state parliament in Saxony on September 1. "It is possible that we will govern alone in Saxony," AfD General Secretary Jan Zwerg said at the election campaign launch in the capital of Saxony, Dresden. From now on, his party will be going on the hunt, he said. In the European elections, the AfD became the strongest party in Saxony with 31.8%. Opinion polls for the state election currently show a neck-and-neck race with the conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) - with...
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Following local elections in the eastern German state of Saxony-Anhalt, 162 seats remain vacant, with 120 belonging to the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, the state election officer said upon request. In the local elections held at the beginning of June, the AfD came out on top with 28.1% of the votes, narrowly beating the centre-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) with 26.8%. However, not all seats could be filled. In some cases this is due to parties having received more votes than they can accept based on their lists, according to a spokeswoman for the state election offic...
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One of the leaders of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) has come out in favour of a victory by Donald Trump in the US presidential elections in November, citing his opposition to the war in Ukraine. "I'm definitely keeping my fingers crossed for Donald Trump," Alice Weidel told national public broadcaster ZDF. Incumbent President Joe Biden was "obviously not in control of his intellectual powers" and should leave office, the AfD co-leader said. Weidel noted that Trump had pledged to withhold US financial support from Kiev. "And I believe he will keep his word," she said. But she also...
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The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) will introduce internal border checks if it takes power in two states following elections in September, co-leader Tino Chrupalla told national public broadcaster ARD on Sunday. The anti-immigration party would also immediately suspend the mechanism agreed for distributing migrants between the 16 states, he said. "That for example would be a programme for the first 100 days, where we say quite clearly: restrictive border controls," Chrupalla said. The AfD would no longer be bound by the migrant distribution agreement, he insisted. The agreement is bas...
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Tino Chrupalla, the co-chairman of the populist Alternative for Germany (AfD), on Sunday said there would be no "power struggle" between party leaders, as the party prepares for national elections in 2025. Speaking in German public broadcaster ARD's annual summer interview, Chrupalla said his co-chairwoman Alice Weidel would be a "good candidate for chancellor," while maintaining that "a party conference or the grassroots" of the party would make the final decision. Weidel, meanwhile, said she could "think of many candidates" to lead the anti-immigrant party in the national election campaign. ...
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Members of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party cannot legally possess firearms under the country's weapons law because the party has been deemed a suspected extremist group. The Dusseldorf Administrative Court ruled on Monday that a married couple must surrender all of their firearms, dismissing a lawsuit brought by the couple over the revocation of their firearms possession permits. Germany's BfV domestic intelligence agency has formally placed the AfD under suspicion of working to undermine the country's democratic constitution. That was upheld in May by an administrative court...
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The firebrand regional leader of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) in the German state of Thuringia, Björn Höcke, has been convicted and fined again for using a banned Nazi slogan. Höcke, 52, was found guilty of using signs of unconstitutional and terrorist organizations for leading a crowd in a chant of the outlawed motto of the Nazi SA stromtroopers - "Alles für Deutschland" (Everything for Germany) - during a speech at a party event in December 2023. Höcke said the first two words and then allegedly gestured to the crowd to complete the slogan. At the time, he was under criminal i...
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The firebrand regional leader of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) in the German state of Thuringia, Björn Höcke, has been convicted and fined again for using a banned Nazi slogan. Höcke, 52, was convicted of leading a crowd in a chant of the outlawed motto of the Nazi SA stromtroopers - "Alles für Deutschland" (Everything for Germany) - during a speech at a party event. Höcke said the first two words and then allegedly gestured to the crowd to complete the slogan. At the time, he was under criminal indictment for having used the same banned slogan during a separate speech. In May, H...
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The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party organization in the southern German state of Bavaria may be placed under surveillance as a suspected extremist group, a court in Munich ruled on Monday. The decision, which rejected a lawsuit brought by the Bavarian AfD, clears the way for the use of undercover agents and intercepted communications to monitor the group. Two lower courts had already made similar rulings. At the beginning of the hearing, the AfD's Bavarian state chairman Stephan Protschka said that he did not expect the complaint to be successful and announced that the party woul...
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