Exit Polls Suggest Germany’s AfD Set for Big Win in Eastern State of Saxony-Anhalt
- On Sunday, September 6, the far-right Alternative for Germany won a historic 44 percent in Saxony-Anhalt's state election, though projections suggest the party fell one seat short of the 42 required to govern alone.
- Chancellor Friedrich Merz's Christian Democratic Union support collapsed to 18.5 percent from 37.1 percent in 2021, as voters' frustration with the federal government's handling of migration and economic stagnation fueled the AfD's surge.
- Germany's domestic intelligence agency has classified the state's AfD branch as 'right-wing extremist' since October 2023, prompting mainstream parties to maintain a 'firewall' of non-cooperation that blocks the party from forming a ruling coalition.
- Lead candidate Ulrich Siegmund declared the result "made history," but now faces a complex path to power dependent on whether the left-wing BSW party clears the five-percent threshold needed to enter parliament.
- Victory in this eastern state bolsters the AfD's national ambitions ahead of 2029, while security experts warn that an AfD-led administration could delay legislation, harden stances against Ukrainian refugees, and disrupt military supply routes to Ukraine.
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MAGDENBURG (ANP) - The far-right party Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) narrowly failed to secure an absolute majority in the elections in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt. Preliminary results show that the AfD received 43.8 percent of the vote. That is twice as much as during the...
The opposition right-wing party "Alternative for Germany" (AdG) won the Saxony-Anhalt Landtag elections by 43.8 per cent of the votes, reports the Regional Electoral Commission after 100 per cent of the ballots were processed; the second was the Christian Democratic Union, with 17.2 per cent, the third was the Social Democratic Party of Germany, with 9.3 per cent, handed over the RIA News, and the Greens and the Left Party, with 8.9 per cent and…
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