As Germany Drifts to the Right, Women Are Hastening the Shift
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Protesters in Berlin on Sunday discouraged the Christian Democrats from working with the right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD).
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As campaigning picks up for Germany’s national election on Feb. 23, just about everyone is bracing for a sharp rightward turn in the results. Bloomberg German breaking news editor Laura Alviz explains the role women are likely to play in that shift. Plus: The Elon, Inc. podcast discusses his attack on the US government, orange juice makers try to engineer a comeback, and a dot-com pioneer faces prison after promising an antigravity machine. If this email was forwarded to you, click here to sign up.
Women have long been a moderating influence on postwar Germany’s politics, primarily backing centrist parties such as the Christian Democrats, the Social Democrats and the Greens, even as men began drifting toward extremists on the right and left.