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Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera
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Gouri Sharma

Could far-right AfD weaponise Germany’s cost-of-living crisis?

An AfD supporter does a Hitler salute during a protest in Berlin against the government amid skyrocketing energy prices [File: Christian Mang/Reuters]

Concerns are being raised in Germany about how far Russian sanctions and the subsequent cost of living crisis are creating fertile ground for the country’s populist far-right party, the Alternative for Germany (AfD), to regain lost political ground.

After low poll ratings at the beginning of the year, recent developments and polling data show that the AfD party could be re-galvanised amidst the crisis.

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