2026-09-21 16:23 UTC
Far-right AfD tops a German state election for second time in a month; Merz rues ‘disaster’
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AfD wins almost 40% in eastern Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania; party seen by Jewish groups as harboring antisemitism leads in national opinion polls but has been kept from power by the other main parties' refusal to work with it The post Far-right AfD tops a German state election for second time in a month; Merz rues ‘disaster’ appeared first on The Times of Israel.
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German state elections and AfD success
The text neutrally reports on election results and reactions from CDU leader Friedrich Merz without promoting a specific ideological stance, activating Rule 8. | The text criticizes the FAR-RIGHT-WING AfD party by highlighting concerns over antisemitism and calling the result a 'disaster'. Applying Rule 5 and Rule 4, criticizing a RIGHT-WING/FAR-RIGHT-WING position assigns a LEFT-WING classification.