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Original Title: Germany’s AfD loses mayoral race in Nordhausen: Jörg Prophet, the candidate from the far-right AfD, had been the clear favorite to win the runoff vote. Instead, independent incumbent Kai Buchmann has managed to hold onto his post with a decisive victory
autotldr@lemmings.world [bot] 2 years ago
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The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) has failed to unseat the incumbent mayor in a runoff election in the central industrial town of Nordhausen.
AfD candidate Jörg Prophet won 45.1% of the vote in Sunday’s local polls, while independent incumbent Kai Buchmann garnered 54.9%.
Buchmann, an independent formerly associated with the Green party, had hoped to harness support from mainstream voters who view the AfD as right-wing extremists.
The populist party has been mired in numerous controversies over their anti-migrant stance, with mainstream politicians warning of parallels between AfD ideology and the Nazis.
Recently, a court in Thuringia decided that AfD regional leader Bjorn Höcke would face trial for allegedly using a banned Nazi slogan in a speech.
Prophet had raised eyebrows with his statements on Germany’s past, stating that Allies troops who liberated the Mittelbau-Dora camp were soley interested in information about rockets and missiles.
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