# Anti-migrant AfD seeks to break Germany’s political ‘firewall’ in historic state election

https://mins.news/en/item/47233

- Fox News, 2026-09-06 10:00 UTC
- Politics
- Original: https://www.foxnews.com/world/anti-migrant-afd-seeks-break-germanys-political-firewall-historic-state-election

> Germany’s far-right Alternative for Germany is leading polls ahead of the Sept. 6 Saxony-Anhalt election, with working-class and young voters seen driving a possible unprecedented victory. An outright majority would make the AfD the first non-SPD or CDU/CSU party since World War II to win a German state alone and would symbolically break the political “firewall” against cooperation with it.

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