# Germany’s far-right AfD copied Trump’s playbook and won. Now it hopes to govern with it

https://mins.news/en/item/64105

- CBC News, 2026-09-18 08:00 UTC
- Politics
- Original: https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/afd-germany-trump-playbook-9.7346039?cmp=rss

> Germany’s far-right Alternative for Germany party won a sweeping victory in Saxony-Anhalt last week and could soon take power. It wants to pursue measures including a deportation task force and revised history lessons in schools, echoing some policies enacted by U.S. President Donald Trump.

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