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Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera
Politics
John T Psaropoulos

Far right set to make strides in a German election dominated by immigration

A placard supporting Germany's conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party candidate for chancellor, Friedrich Merz, is seen besmeared in Bonn, Germany, January 23, 2025 [Wolfgang Rattay/Reuters]

Germans would be hard-pressed to find a time when their political landscape was as fragmented as it is days ahead of Sunday’s federal election.

For the first time since World War II, Germany’s two traditional political locomotives are set to garner less than half the national vote.

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