
‘Stopping AfD’: German Left-Wing Celebrities and NGOs Team Up Against Weidel’s Party
The campaign in Saxony-Anhalt comes as the right-wing populist party holds a commanding lead over the governing CDU.

The campaign in Saxony-Anhalt comes as the right-wing populist party holds a commanding lead over the governing CDU.

Establishment forces are crying wolf ahead of a potential AfD-led government in Saxony-Anhalt.

German mainstream parties are trying to weaken the rising AfD with a sweeping reform of parliamentary rules in Saxony-Anhalt.

The effort to ‘AfD-proof’ Saxony-Anhalt is only the latest in a series of measures taken over recent months and years to weaken and marginalise the populists.

One state parliament is stripping itself of powers so that the opposition cannot use them when it takes control.