Germany's AfD is poised for a historic victory in the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt, exit polls show.
Exit polls project the far‑right party securing between 44 and 44.5% of the vote, while the conservative CDU lags with roughly 18.5%.
The AfD declared the result a “historic outcome,” with Ulrich Siegmund, the state’s charismatic leader, refusing to form a coalition with any other party.
Since World War II, no far‑right party has gained state‑level power in Germany—a shift that would grant the AfD control over policing, local education and culture.
With a population of just 2.1 million, Saxony-Anhalt’s AfD is labeled “far‑right extremist” by domestic intelligence, a categorisation Siegmund rejects.
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