Walking through Dresden this weekend, I was bombarded with political messaging. Posters on every lamppost promise anything from “top education” to “law and order” — whatever it takes to draw voters back from the political fringes ahead of regional elections.
The three German states of Brandenburg, Saxony and Thuringia will elect new parliaments in September, and in all three polling suggests that up to half of voters might opt either for the Right-wing Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) or the Left-wing populists of the Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht (BSW).
