Far-right surges in 2 east German elections but doesn't win
BERLIN (AP) ” A far-right party made strong gains in a pair of state elections in eastern Germany on Sunday, but opponents from the political mainstream won both votes ” salvaging their position as the top vote-getters and providing some relief for the national government.Voters in Saxony, a region of around 4.1 million people bordering Poland and the Czech Republic, and neighboring Brandenburg, which has 2.5 million inhabitants and surrounds Berlin, elected new state legislatures. […]
