Just before the regional elections in Saxony-Anhalt, an analysis by party researcher Benjamin Höhne paints a picture of strong support for the AfD, which leads in the polls with 42 percent, and argues that the challenges the party faces are not specific to East Germany, but are part of a broader crisis of representative democracy in western countries, while the AfD draws on historical successes of far-right parties and exploits East German identity debates for its purposes. (translated)






