# AfD could lead ‘first far-right state government since the dark days of Nazism’

https://mins.news/en/video/47498

- France 24 English, 2026-09-06 16:07 UTC
- Politics
- Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLts5JyqJVQ

> Voting is taking place in the closely watched election in Germany’s eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt. Correspondent Nick Holdsworth says an AfD-led government there would be the first regional government headed by a far-right party since the end of World War II, dating back to the Nazi era.

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