BERLIN — Victories for Germany’s far-right Alternative for Germany in two eastern states prompted Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Monday to urge mainstream parties to forge coalitions without the ...

Map of Germany featuring Thuringia in red (center) and Saxony in blue, (right). [Photo by NordNordWest/WSWS / CC BY-SA 3.0] The collapse of the Left Party was even more drastic.