PoliticsChancellor Merz says AfD result ‘changes all of Germany’

Chancellor Friedrich Merz called the AfD’s victory and the CDU’s defeat in Saxony-Anhalt a catastrophe with consequences for all of Germany and the international stage. He vowed to defend constitutional values and continue his government’s reforms, while the AfD’s near-majority left his party leadership and chancellorship under pressure.

German politicsSaxony-AnhaltAfDstate election

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