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Far-right AfD says it is now ‘major all-German party’ after state elections (www.theguardian.com)
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[-] Haven5341@feddit.de 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

an increasing number of people aren’t voting at all

That seems wrong. At least in Thuringia, Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt (the states mentioned in the paper) voter turnout has been quite stable the last 20 years.

A quick search leads to:

https://de.statista.com/statistik/daten/studie/281790/umfrage/wahlbeteiligung-bei-den-landtagswahlen-in-thueringen/

https://www.wahlen.sachsen.de/landtagswahl-historie-eckdaten.html

https://de.statista.com/statistik/daten/studie/3179/umfrage/wahlbeteiligung-bei-den-landtagswahlen-in-sachsen-anhalt-seit-1990/

[-] trollercoaster@feddit.de 1 points 8 months ago

Seems to vary a bit regionally, also there seems to have been a recent uptick that I wasn't aware of.

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