# Saxony-Anhalt vote could produce first postwar far-right state government

https://mins.news/en/video/48819

- DW News, 2026-09-07 19:56 UTC
- Politics
- Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzaiD1K9MdI

> The far-right AfD has won a landslide victory in the Saxony-Anhalt state election, sending shockwaves across Germany and beyond. Despite its strongest result ever, the party fell short of the absolute majority needed to secure Germany’s first far-right state government since World War II.

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