Saxony-Anhalt vote could see first post-war far-right regional government | DW News

The far-right AfD party has sent shockwaves across Germany -- and the world -- by surging to a landslide victory in a state election in Saxony Anhalt. Despite achieving its strongest-ever result, the AfD still fell short of an absolute majority that would have guaranteed Germany's first far-right state government since World War II.

Chapters:
00:00 AfD wins a landslide victory in Saxony-Anhalt
00:43 Election results and seat distribution in the state parliament
01:11 Report: political fallout for Friedrich Merz and the CDU
02:01 AfD celebrates victory and targets national power
03:20 Pressure on the CDU firewall against cooperation with AfD
04:25 Interview: Johannes Kiess, right-wing extremism expert at Leipzig University
05:13 Bernd Riegert, DW Political Correspondent, on reactions in Magdeburg
06:14 Simon Young, DW Political Correspondent
08:05 National implications of the AfD's victory and the firewall debate
11:50 Interview: Roland Abold, Managing Director of Infratest dimap
15:36 Coalition scenarios and the role of BSW after the election

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