How Badly Will the AfD Email Hack Hurt the German Far Right?

Summary

By most accounts, Germany’s far-right Alternative für Deutschland Party is on an upswing. It’s been steadily rising in the polls ahead of the German federal election set to take place on January 30, 2027, while Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s Christian Democrats sink, and it won the state election in Saxony-Anhalt last month while receiving the largest share of votes in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. But a recent leak of hacked emails has become a headache for the party and could give a boost to calls for it to be banned. Hackers released more than 421,000 internal party emails and 48,000…

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