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Alternative for Germany party set for regional election triumph and could form the country’s first far-right state government
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The far-right Alternative for Germany was projected to win a strong victory in a regional election Sunday, but it wasn’t immediately clear whether it would be able to fulfill its ambition of forming the country’s first far-right state government since World War II.
Key facts
- Projections for ARD and ZDF public television, based on exit polls and partial counting, put AfD at a bit over 44% of the vote, more than double its showing five years ago in the region of 2.1
- That was far ahead of Merz’s Christian Democratic Union which was seen polling 18% and losing about half its support — It was unclear whether the BSW party would get the 5% of the vote needed to win seats
- Whether or not AfD can form a government, the projected result is a blow to Merz, whose center-right party has led Saxony-Anhalt for 24 years
Summary
The party of German’s unpopular leader, Chancellor Friedrich Merz, was set for a disastrous result in the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt. Ulrich Siegmund, 35, told public broadcaster ARD that voters had sent a signal that “things cannot carry on like this” and that it was “also a signal toward Berlin.” Of Germany’s unpopular leader, he said: “A good campaigner for them in this election campaign was Friedrich Merz. Alternative for Germany, or AfD, went into the vote seeking an absolute majority in the state legislature to govern on its own.