# ‘We should have learned more from history’: Germans react to AfD win

https://mins.news/en/video/48725

- Guardian News, 2026-09-07 17:47 UTC
- Politics
- Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cHWq-xGFfE

> The AfD won 43.8% in Saxony-Anhalt’s state election, more than doubling its result from five years ago. The landmark victory brings a far-right party within reach of state power in Germany for the first time since the second world war, but it remains three seats short of a majority in the 83-seat legislature.

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