Who Runs the West? Merkel Wins Again but Far Right Surges

Germany’s national elections on Sunday will go down in history as the event that, for the first time since WWII, brought a far-right, anti-immigrant, and, according to some, ‘neo-Nazi’ political party into the country’s national decision-making body – the federal parliament.

The Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) came in third behind Germany’s two largest parties – the Social Democrats and the Christian Democrats, who have been ruling in a coalition government under Chancellor Angela Merkel for the past five years. The AfD got around 13 percent of the vote, procuring an estimated 94 of the 709 seats in parliament.

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