German voters headed to the polls on Sunday for a key regional election in the ex-communist east where the far-right, anti-immigrant, Moscow- and Trump-friendly AfD is expected to secure an easy majority. Our correspondent Nick Holdsworth tells us more.

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[โ€“] 16 points 1 day ago

I did nazi that coming

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  • [โ€“] 10 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    expected to secure an easy majority

    Uhm, no? They were never expected to win an easy majority. Which, by the way, they didnโ€˜t in the end.

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  • [โ€“] 4 points 22 hours ago (1 child)

    Easy majority โ‰  super majority

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  • [โ€“] 8 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 child)

    That's not how you use these terms in English usually:

    A majority is more than half of a total, while a super majority is the amount of votes needed above a simply majority (usually things like 2/3 to do constitutional changes...).

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  • [โ€“] 0 points 16 hours ago

    Shocking. Within our lifetime Germany could have a national government again which facilitates the commission of genocide. Like the current one and the last one.

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