Pressure is mounting on German Chancellor Olaf Scholz after the far-right AfD made substantial gains in the European Union election on Sunday.
The AfD became the second strongest party in Germany after clinching 15.9% of the vote, ahead of Scholz's SPD, which won 13.9%.
Pressure is mounting on German Chancellor Olaf Scholz after the far-right AfD made substantial gains in the European Union election on Sunday despite a string of scandals., beating Scholz's SPD and its two coalition partners in the current German government, the Greens and the FDP . Incremental gains meanwhile turned Germany's opposition, the CDU , into the strongest party, with 23.7% of support.The results deal the latest blow to Scholz's government, which has faced a string of crises from a struggling economy to budget issues and concerns about the popularity of the far-right.
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