Anti-AfD protests sweep Germany as far right closes in on two more states
Alarm that Berlin and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania may fall next after party’s Saxony-Anhalt election victory
TL;DR
- Thousands protested the far-right AfD in Germany after its success in Saxony-Anhalt.
- Protesters denounced the AfD's anti-immigrant and pro-Russian agenda.
- The AfD achieved its best-ever state result in Saxony-Anhalt and is showing momentum for elections in Berlin and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.
- Germany's domestic intelligence agency has classified the AfD's state chapter as rightwing extremist.
- Protests were held in multiple cities across Germany, including Berlin, Potsdam, Münster, Göttingen, Dresden, Aachen, Bamberg, Darmstadt, and Halberstadt.