‘The lurch to the right scares me’: could the left surprise in German election?
Amid Elon Musk’s meddling on behalf of the AfD, the Linke is gaining strong support from women and young voters
As the world’s richest person meddles at will on behalf of the far right in the German election campaign, a leftist party calling for taxing billionaires out of existence has risen from the ashes in the race’s final stretch.
The far-left Linke, successor to the East German communists who built the Berlin Wall and just months ago on life support after an internal schism, has had a surprise resurgence before the 23 February poll.
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