{"id":40704,"date":"2019-09-02T14:22:34","date_gmt":"2019-09-02T14:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=40704"},"modified":"2019-09-02T14:22:34","modified_gmt":"2019-09-02T14:22:34","slug":"germanys-far-right-makes-big-gains-in-state-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=40704","title":{"rendered":"Germany&#8217;s far-right makes big gains in state elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\"> (CNN)<\/cite>A far-right party scored its strongest-ever results in two key state elections in <a href=\"https:\/\/cnn.com\/2019\/08\/31\/europe\/leipzig-afd-east-germany-state-elections-grm-intl\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">eastern Germany<\/a> on Sunday, finishing second behind the country&#8217;s major parties on the same day that Europe marked the 80th anniversary of the Nazi invasion of Poland. <\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">The anti-immigrant <a href=\"https:\/\/cnn.com\/2019\/08\/31\/europe\/leipzig-afd-east-germany-state-elections-grm-intl\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Alternative for Deutschland (AfD)<\/a> party finished second in <a href=\"https:\/\/cnn.com\/2019\/08\/31\/europe\/leipzig-afd-east-germany-state-elections-grm-intl\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Saxony<\/a> to Chancellor Angela Merkel&#8217;s Christian Democrats (CDU), and second in <a href=\"https:\/\/cnn.com\/2019\/08\/31\/europe\/leipzig-afd-east-germany-state-elections-grm-intl\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Brandenburg<\/a> to the center-left Social Democrats (SPD).<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">The results represent a blow to Merkel&#8217;s ruling coalition with the SPD, and will be viewed as a victory for the AfD, which took 27.5% of votes in Saxony and 23.5% in Brandenburg &#8212; a significant increase on state elections five years ago, with the party almost tripling its share in Saxony and doubling it in Brandenburg.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN)A far-right party scored its strongest-ever results in two key state elections in eastern Germany on Sunday, finishing second behind the country&#8217;s major parties on the same day that Europe marked the 80th anniversary of the Nazi invasion of Poland. The anti-immigrant Alternative for Deutschland (AfD) party finished second in Saxony to Chancellor Angela Merkel&#8217;s&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":40705,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40704\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/40705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}