{"id":70512,"date":"2024-09-01T14:45:30","date_gmt":"2024-09-01T14:45:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/german-elections-polls-open-for-voters-as-far-right-afd-eyes-gains-bbc-news\/"},"modified":"2024-09-01T14:45:30","modified_gmt":"2024-09-01T14:45:30","slug":"german-elections-polls-open-for-voters-as-far-right-afd-eyes-gains-bbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/german-elections-polls-open-for-voters-as-far-right-afd-eyes-gains-bbc-news\/","title":{"rendered":"German elections polls open for voters as far right AfD eyes gains | BBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Voters in Germany&#8217;s two eastern states are due to cast their ballots in elections in which the far right is <!--more--> expected to perform strongly.<\/p>\n<p>The Alternative for Germany (AfD) has been polling top in Thuringia ahead of Sunday&#8217;s vote, while the party has been running neck-and-neck for first place with the conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) in Saxony.<\/p>\n<p>Chancellor Olaf Scholz\u2019s Social Democratic Party (SPD) and its coalition partners have been struggling in recent polls.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, thousands of protesters rallied in Thuringia&#8217;s regional capital, Erfurt, denouncing the anti-immigrant AfD as fascists. <\/p>\n<p>The AfD says Germany needs to expel illegal migrants.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe here: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1rbfUog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/1rbfUog<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>For more news, analysis and features visit: www.bbc.com\/news <\/p>\n<p>#Germany #GermanElections #BBCNews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Voters in Germany&#8217;s two eastern states are due to cast their ballots in elections in which the far right is<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":70528,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70512\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}