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Germany's firewall against far-right may have backfired
Published Wednesday, August 19, 2026 · Updated August 19
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What We Know — Key Points
Key points are extracted by an AI model and may contain errors or omissions. Always check the original sources.- The far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) has led most German national polls since April last year.
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- The Guardian
The article emphasizes that Germany's Brandmauer strategy, designed to contain the far-right, has instead backfired by enabling the AfD to avoid accountability and by forcing mainstream parties into unstable alliances, thereby alienating voters and boosting support for the very extremism it sought to prevent.
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