🇩🇪 Polling shows the AfD is expected to lock down 145 seats in the Bundestag, only second to the center-right CDU, which is expected to land 220.
📝 Keith Woods: If it plays out this way, it will be a really interesting dynamic to have a conservative party governing with a nationalist party as the main opposition.
When was the last time that happened in a major Western democracy?
🇩🇪 Polling shows the AfD is expected to lock down 145 seats in the Bundestag, only second to the center-right CDU, which is expected to land 220.
📝 Keith Woods: If it plays out this way, it will be a really interesting dynamic to have a conservative party governing with a nationalist party as the main opposition.
When was the last time that happened in a major Western democracy?
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