PoliticsSaxony-Anhalt poll: ‘A huge blow for the CDU, but also a huge win for the AfD’

Markus Ziener, a visiting senior fellow at the German Marshall Fund, says the AfD’s breakthrough in Saxony-Anhalt could mark a historic turning point in post-war German politics. He highlights both the scale of the far right’s success and the fact that many AfD voters had previously been politically disengaged, rather than merely abandoning established parties.