# German Chancellor Merz ‘shocked’ by far-right AfD election win

https://mins.news/en/video/48745

- BBC News, 2026-09-07 18:30 UTC
- Politics
- Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2xhULNy46E

> Chancellor Friedrich Merz says Germany is undergoing a tectonic shift in party politics after the far-right Alternative for Germany won in Saxony-Anhalt. He said the result shook his conservative CDU to its core and showed the need for a major reckoning. The anti-immigration party has proposed banning rainbow flags in schools and segregating refugee children in classes.

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