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Merz is on the ropes. Could Sundayâs regional elections deliver a knock-out blow? (opens the original)
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The name Friedrich Merz is on none of the 5.2 million ballot papers in circulation on Sunday, when voters choose two new German state governments, yet the deeply unpopular 70-year-old federal leader will be a crucial factor in both polls. Very different parliaments are likely to emerge for the city-state of Berlin and the northeastern Baltic state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommen. Yet either â or both â could deliver credibility blows to Merz and his centre-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU). In
Swedish voters deliver cliffhanger general election outcome (opens the original)
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Swedish voters delivered a cliffhanger general election result on Sunday, with early projections showing the outgoing centre-right group of prime minister Ulf Kristersson just one parliamentary seat behind the opposition centre-left camp led by the Social Democrats. With 10 per cent of districts counted, the opposition Social Democrats led by former prime minster Magdalena Andersson won the election with 27.6 per cent, followed by Ulf Kristerssonâs Moderates with 20 per cent. Taken as part of
Swedenâs election puts hardline migration overhaul under scrutiny (opens the original)
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Samuel Asiamah, a 33-year-old gay Ghanian man, was lucky to flee his homophobic homeland when he did two years ago â but unlucky to seek asylum in Sweden. For decades this Nordic country was a beacon for anyone seeking refuge from oppression, with many Swedes viewing their homeland proudly as a âhuman rights superpowerâ. But Asiamahâs story indicates just how far things have changed. âIf you are threatened or in imminent danger then you donât have a place here in Sweden. People shoul
Swedes to decide if its government takes a further leap to the right (opens the original)
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Ulf Kristerssonâs centre-right coalition won power in Sweden four years ago with a promise: to break the bloody, vicious circle of gangland violence. That was 2022, with a record 391 shootings. Since then, Swedenâs four-year law-and-order crackdown has seen shootings drop to 48 in the first nine months of this year. Now Kristersson hopes a late poll surge for his camp ahead of Sundayâs general election is a sign of voters ready to reward a promise kept. On the campaign trail he has promise
Derek Scally: Germanyâs past has come crashing into its present (opens the original)
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On Saturday evening, a day before the Alternative for Germany (AfD) scored its first passport to power, I went to the cinema to clear my head â and failed spectacularly. Lying around in the foyer were flyers from a special screening for the actors and creative team of the final series of Babylon Berlin, a popular television show about the end of German democracy and the rise of fascism. Inside the cinema, one of the trailers was for Heimsuchung (Visitation), the new film by celebrated German f
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