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Germany news: Far-right AfD loses mayoral runoffs in NRW

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Germany news: Far-right AfD loses mayoral runoffs in NRW – DW – 09/29/2025

The AfD has failed to win three run-offs for mayor in major cities in Germany's west, despite other gains. Meanwhile, the German foreign minister is to visit Poland as tensions grow over Russia's aggression.

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Love to see Elon-aligned fascists take the L
On the one hand, I'd wish they would at least win one city, so that they can show they have absolutely nothing to add to the society. But on the other hand, I want them to fail hard every time.
FCK AFD
- We thought like this in the late 90'/early 00's when the FN won a couple of cities in southern France. Their failures, nepotism, mismanagement, amateurism, stupidity and blatant authoritarianism got widely reported at first. Some media kept tabs for much longer but it faded out off mainstream media pretty quickly, except for the occasional scandal.
  Worse, it legitimizes them and give them a platform under a veneer of electoral legitimacy.
  Don't let the far right win anything. You won't "show everyone they're unfit for power" because people don't care. They just become familiar faces.
- They already won several positions and majorities in some cities and broke all promises they made. Still growing in numbers.
- They have a mayor. His Village is Close to be bankrupt.
  People only realize until its too late.
  
  Brazilian here. Even when it is too late there will people still drinking the koolaid.
  I'm waiting to see how things will develop in US, in part, because I hope the obvious failure that is bound to happen will nudge our senate and judiciary to say a loud "FUCK NO!" to anyone trying to copy cat Trump's tarifs, Big Beautiful Bill or other shits here.
  Still, there are 20 or 30% of the population that still want something similar to Bolsonaro.
  If we ever have the disgrace of that idiot getting freed of Jail, I'll either join the fight against his sycophants or I'll flee away from Brazil.
  (free bolsonaro is unlikely but not impossible and there are his family members and close ties in politics to always haunt us that want a proper democracy)
  
  This must be a coincidence. Certainly, that's not their fault! 😭
Good to hear. Maybe Germany isn’t joining the Putinist axis alongside Hungary and Slovakia after its next elections after all.
- Oh dear, Russia RussiaaAAA RUSSSSIAAAAAAAAAAA!!! Do people like you see anything that isn't caused by Russia? The "Putinist axis", what a wild imagination. Hey on the plus side you're never bored I guess.
  
  It's a well-documented fact that there is a decades-long large scale state-sponsored effort of propagandists in St. Petersburg using bots and tens of thousands of fake accounts to push far-right propaganda narratives online which are aimed squarely at dividing western societies. They are on every platform, posing as concerned citizens, creating the illusion of a silent majority fed up with wokism or whatever the boogeyman is today. They've scored massive wins with their support for Brexit and MAGA, and have only doubled down on this strategy since.
  So the question is, are you denying this or pretending it doesn't matter?
  I am obviously not saying it's all Russia and things would be fine otherwise, so don't even go there.
The fact that this even needs to be stated is concerning
Like we didn't know it was from Germany, but they added it anyways.
\ I guess it's for our USA users who think US exists only?

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