Alternative for Germany is leading in the elections in Saxony-Anhalt: oh, what happened, and how did it happen?
The result marks a major setback for the CDU as voters turned to the far-right party, with 44.5% of ballots cast, exit polls showed.
- On Sunday, the Alternative for Germany secured 44.5% of the vote in Saxony-Anhalt, positioning party leader Ulrich Siegmund to form a government; the next major contender received only 18.5%.
- Germany's domestic intelligence agency has labeled the AfD an "extremist" organization, citing past neo-Nazi links, while Siegmund faced scrutiny when Politico asked about the Holocaust and he said he could not "presume to judge" it.
- The AfD platform includes deporting refugees, restoring trade with Russia, and cutting aid to Ukraine, alongside funding cuts for public broadcasters and bans on teaching "woke" subjects to the state's 1.7 million registered voters.
- Chancellor Friedrich Merz, who leads the Christian Democratic Union , faces a significant blow from the result, though Siegmund called him "a very good campaigner for us in this election campaign."
- Germany faces a hard-right government for the first time in its post-war democracy, forcing the CDU to evaluate its leadership and direction following poor personal polling over the past year.
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The opposition ultra-right party "Alternative for Germany" (AdG) leads the elections to the Landtag (Parliament) of the Federal Land of Saxony-Anhalt, reports European media on Sunday with reference to exit sex data.
Alternative for Germany is leading in the elections in Saxony-Anhalt: oh, what happened, and how did it happen?
Alternative for Germany is leading in the elections in Saxony-Anhalt: oh, what happened, and how did it happen?According to infratest dimap, 25% of voters consider social security to be the most important issue that influenced their voting decision....
The latest provisional election results in Saxony-Anhalt are leading to a sweeping victory for the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), marking a historic reversal of the political landscape in the eastern German state.
Germany's Alternative for Germany (AfD) party has made history with its landslide victory in the state of Saxony-Anhalt, its regional leader Ulrich Sigmund said in an interview with public broadcaster ARD after the first preliminary results were released. We need a fundamental political change in this country, a policy that will finally take care of our own interests, again for our […] The post Alternative for Germany has made history with its e…
The Alternative for Germany (AfD) has won a historic victory in the parliamentary elections in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt with 44.4% of the vote, according to the current ARD/Infratest dimap forecast.
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