Success of far-right AfD shows east and west Germany are drifting further apart
by Philip Oltermann European culture editor from World news | The Guardian on (#6QDA8)
Likely win in Thuringia and second place in Saxony highlight how eastern voters are asserting their own political identity
After the Berlin Wall fell in November 1989, the former West German chancellor Willy Brandt predicted that reunification would finally allow what belongs together to grow together".
How optimistic that image of organic healing sounds 35 years on. Tonight's historic election results from Thuringia and Saxony paint a picture of a Germany whose eastern and western regions are, if anything, drifting further and further apart.
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