The anti-immigration, Islamophobic and Russia-friendly AfD party is poised to win in the state of Saxony-Anhalt, with hopes of taking its first-ever governing majority.
In a week, the Alternative for Germany (AfD), an anti-migrant, russophile and pro-Trump party, hopes to win the election in this eastern Land of the country, against the conservatives of Chancellor Friedrich Merz that it leads by almost twenty points in the polls. The arrival of the far right at the head of a region, a first in the history of post-war Germany, could have dramatic consequences for migrants in Saxony-Anhalt: the AfD candidate, Ulr…