What AfD's Election Victory in Germany's Saxony-Anhalt Could Mean for Jewish Life
The party won 43.8% and more than doubled its vote share, while the CDU fell to 17.2% and lost about half its support.
- In a regional election west of Berlin, the AfD secured 43.8% of the vote, more than doubling its showing from five years ago. AfD Co-leader Alice Weidel declared the party has "received a very clear mandate to govern here."
- The Christian Democratic Union polled 17.2%, losing about half its support and winning 15 seats, while the Social Democrats, Greens, and Left Party each secured 9.3%, 8.9%, and 8.6%, winning eight seats apiece.
- General secretary Franziska Hoppermann called the outcome "a very difficult result for us," while Lead candidate Ulrich Siegmund needled Chancellor Friedrich Merz, saying he was a "very good campaigner for us."
- While Italian Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini declared "another Europe is possible," Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk wrote that "only idiots or traitors can rejoice at the triumph of the AfD," naming Konfederacja and PiS members.
- Weidel told reporters she expects early federal elections and the current chancellor to be replaced before Christmas, citing the party's platform of representing national interests over those of Ukraine or any other country.
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What AfD's election victory in Germany's Saxony-Anhalt could mean for Jewish life
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