Germany's rightward march

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🗓️ 24 February 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Germany's far-right Alternative for Germany party won its best ever results this weekend. We hear why an anti-immigrant, fascist-curious party is surging in the land that gave birth to Nazism. This episode was produced by Travis Larchuk with help from Avishay Artsy, edited by Amina Al-Sadi, fact-checked by Laura Bullard and Victoria Chamberlin, engineered by Patrick Boyd and Andrea Kristinsdottir, and hosted by Noel King Transcript at vox.com/today-explained-podcast Support Today, Explained by becoming a Vox Member today: http://www.vox.com/members A poster of Alice Weidel, who co-leads the Alternative for Germany (AfD), behind a "Make Duisburg great again" cap. Photo by LOUIS VAN BOXEL-WOOLF/AFP via Getty Images. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Germans went to the polls this weekend and how.
0:04.0	It was the biggest election turnout in a generation.
0:08.0	More than eight in ten eligible voters cast a ballot.
0:11.0	Friedrich Murs, a conservative from the CDU party, is on track to be Chancellor.
0:16.0	He said today it's time for traditional Democratic parties to start getting things done.
0:22.3	The world won't wait for us.
0:25.3	It won't wait for long-drawn-out coalition negotiations.
0:31.1	We must be capable of acting again quickly so that we can do the right thing in Germany.
0:38.8	The party that came in second place, the alternative for Germany or AFD, is from the far right fringe.
0:44.2	So it is perhaps inevitable that America's unelected vice president, Elon Musk, has spoken in support of the AFD. But so has America's elected vice president, J.D. Vance.
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