Le Monde columnist says demographic decline helped fuel AfD's Saxony-Anhalt win
Le Monde columnist Gilles Paris argued that population decline, not only immigration, is an important factor behind the far-right AfD's electoral surge in Saxony-Anhalt.
Le Monde columnist Gilles Paris wrote that while many analysts have explained the AfD's election result in Saxony-Anhalt primarily through the lens of immigration, the region's declining population should not be underestimated as a factor.
Paris argued that depopulation and the rise of the far right tend to go hand in hand, according to the column.
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- « Pour expliquer la poussée nationale-populiste dans le Land de Saxe-Anhalt, on aurait tort de sous-estimer le facteur démographique » — Le Monde — Une
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