This Could Be the Year Germany's Far-Right Goes Mainstream
Polls give the far-right AfD 41% support and put it within reach of an absolute majority in the state parliament.
- If polling holds, the AfD will comfortably win the Saxony-Anhalt election on September 6 with 41% of the vote, doubling its vote share from the 2021 election.
- Some commentators attribute the rightward shift to East Germans feeling uniquely "estranged from democracy" after living in a socialist dictatorship for four decades, with the Saxony-Anhalt election serving as a landmark indicator of broader change affecting all of Germany.
- The firewall looks shaky, with recent polling suggesting the AfD could end up just two seats short of a majority in Saxony-Anhalt, while a senior CDU figure recently threatened to "intervene" if his party begins talks with the AfD.
- If the AfD wins an absolute majority of seats, it could govern Saxony-Anhalt alone without coalition partners; the populist-left BSW party has also indicated willingness to work with the AfD, creating multiple viable routes to power.
- The AfD demands a "180-degree turn on migration" and plans to use Saxony-Anhalt's four votes in Germany's upper chamber to lobby for radical national change, potentially making the state the first run by a far-right party since the Second World War.
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According to a new survey, the AfD in Saxony-Anhalt reaches a new peak of 43 percent.
With an absolute majority in Saxony-Anhalt, the partly extremist party could not determine foreign policy. Nevertheless, Germany's allies would have cause for great concern.
In a survey commissioned by Campact, the AfD only misses the absolute majority. Every seventh voter is therefore still undecided.
In the Sachsen-Anhalt election, the AfD looks above all at other parties. Almost more than 40 percent of the votes could be enough for single government.
The far-right AfD in parts is predicted to have high election results in September. Felor Badenberg (CDU) sees a danger.
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