The far-right Alternative for Germany party won a landslide victory in the state parliament elections in Saxony-Anhalt. However, it is unclear whether she will be able to form a government.
According to exit polls, the AfD is gaining 44.5% of the vote, the CDU leading the German coalition government is 18.5%, the ultra-left Die Linke, the heirs of the communists, is 9.5%, the Social Democrats are 8%, the rest do not pass the electoral threshold.
In the 2022 Landtag elections, the Christian Democrats received 37%, Alternative for Germany 20.8%, Die Linke 11% and the Social Democrats 8.4%.
Despite the fact that Saxony-Anhalt has a population of just over two million people, AfD leaders rightly call the result historic. Never in the entire post-war history of Germany have the far right won an election in a federal state.
If a government is formed, the party that the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution has recognized as extremist will be able to control the police, the education system, and cultural institutions. But what is no less significant is that the outcome of the vote, which breaks the taboo that existed in Germany, will resonate both at the federal level and in other countries.
The party advocates the deportation of immigrants and is against support for Ukraine, and also takes a position of Euroscepticism. She is considered pro-Russian. The supply lines of Ukraine and the eastern flank of NATO pass through the territory of the federal land. These strategically important communications are threatened by Russian sabotage.