PoliticsWhy is the far-right AfD’s state victory significant, and what happens next in German politics?

The Alternative für Deutschland won 44% in Saxony-Anhalt, nearly securing an outright majority and delivering Germany’s biggest far-right state-election victory since the Nazi period. The party still needs partners or outside support to govern, while the result has intensified doubts about Friedrich Merz’s leadership and mainstream parties’ policy of keeping the AfD from power.

German politicsAfDSaxony-Anhaltstate election

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