AfD...leaders have used Nazi slogans and minimized the Holocaust
...rising prices and high unemployment helped win the far-right party...more than twice the number of votes as Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s center-right incumbent party.
"Developed Europe is going through a version of sophisticated state failure. Governments are unable to address cost-of-living concerns. They are not able to deliver for their voters.”
-Mujtaba Rahman, Eurasia Group analyst.
“In both [Germany and France], the antifascist front that had prevailed since the end of the Second World War seems on the verge of collapse."
-Philippe Marlière, a professor of French and European politics at University College London.
In France, Marie Le Pen’s...poll numbers are more than double those of the leading centrist, Edouard Philippe, or the leading far-left candidate, Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
