Europe has been rocked by a series of decisive elections in the past months. In Germany, the populist-right Alternative for Germany, known as the AfD, won Thuringia’s state election, marking the first victory of a nationalist party in a German state election since 1945. This follows the party’s political gains earlier this year when the ruling coalition of the Social Democrats, Greens, and Free Democrats suffered a significant defeat in the EU parliament elections at the hands of the AfD, which got the second-highest share of the votes, upending the ruling Social Democrats.
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