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Germany's far-right AfD dominates state election; but may need coalition partner - C C - Sep 7, 2026
Glock AI summary: "Frustrated Deutschland voters send a clear message of being tired of deindustrialization (plant closures and job losses), waves of tedious and expensive micromanaging bureaucracy, and parties that think mimicking church and playing social-virtue posturing games [competing for sainthood awards] is the most important endeavor in the world."
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Germany's far-right AfD dominates Saxony-Anhalt election; governing path unclear
https://www.newsweek.com/germany-election-afd-wins-may-be-first-far-right-party-in-power-since-ww2-12409885
EXCERPTS: Germany's far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) scored a historic victory in Sunday's Saxony-Anhalt election, with exit polls showing the party winning 44.6 percent of the vote and finishing well ahead of its rivals.
The result marks the strongest performance by a far-right party in a German state since World War II. The New York Times reported on Sunday afternoon that 90 percent of the votes have been counted, adding that the AfD "looks likely to fall short of an absolute majority."
While the party emerged as the clear winner in Sunday's pivotal state election, it fell short of what was needed to govern alone. The AfD could nonetheless play a role in forming a government in Saxony-Anhalt, depending on coalition talks among other parties that have ruled out supporting an AfD administration.
The result also marked a major setback for Chancellor Friedrich Merz's conservative bloc, Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU), and a major breakthrough for the AfD, which has built its strongest support in eastern Germany and campaigned on tougher immigration controls, opposition to the political establishment and a more nationalist agenda.
The AfD, led in Saxony-Anhalt by Ulrich Siegmund, had been polling consistently above 40 percent ahead of Sunday's election, as reported by Reuters, well ahead of the CDU, which governs the state.
[...] “Some would say it was a dark day for Saxony-Anhalt,” Sven Schulze, the Christian Democrat and incumbent leader of the Saxony-Anhalt government, said on a German television broadcast, per the Times. “I say this is democracy,” he continued. “The people have sent a clear message.”
The result could be a "turning point," Lars Klingbeil, Germany’s vice chancellor and a center-left Social Democrat, said in a television interview, the newspaper reported.
[...] Immigration has emerged as one of the defining issues in the election, reflecting a broader debate playing out across Germany ahead of the next federal vote. AfD has campaigned heavily on promises to tighten border controls, reduce asylum applications and increase deportations, arguing that migration levels have placed pressure on housing, schools and public services.
According to German public broadcasters and national polling, immigration consistently ranks among voters' top concerns, alongside the economy and cost of living, helping drive increased political engagement and turnout in the state election.
[...] The party's manifesto has been described as "radical" and calls for a major shift in policy, including tougher measures on migration and asylum, while also promising changes to education and security policy, along with greater support for traditional families. It also looks at an expansion of nuclear energy, limits on wind power, a smaller public broadcasting system, more nationalist cultural policies and lower taxes and regulation for businesses. (MORE - missing details)
https://youtu.be/h9GjG3HXsr0
RE: Germany's far-right AfD dominates state election; but may need coalition partner - Yazata - Sep 7, 2026
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The state legislature in Sachsen Anhalt has 83 members, so an absolute majority is 42 seats.
The results:
Seat Distribution
AfD: 39 (+16)
CDU: 16 (-24)
LINKE: 8 (-4)
SPD: 8 (-1)
GRÜNE: 8 (+2)
BSW: 4 (NEW)
FDP: 0 (-7)
AfD came close with 39 seats, so if they are to form a government they will need three more.
If the ostensibly "conservative" CDU is to form a government with only 16 seats, they will need to find 26 more. That will require them to form a coalition government with three parties of the left, the SPD (Social Democrats), the Greens, and the Linke (left) which is the descendant of the old East German communist party, each of which have eight seats. That probably unstable coalition with the communists would still leave them 2 seats short.
Which leaves the BSW as potential king-maker. This is generally classed as a left-leaning party and is a spinoff of Linke. But the reason why they spun off and formed their own party is interesting - they oppose open borders and the flooding of Germany with migrants that the CDU and SPD have engineered. So with regard to immigration they are close to AfD. And both BSW and AfD are quite populist, supportive of regular German voters in opposition to ruling globalist elites. So these supposedly "right" and "left" parties might have much more in common than people assume. And importantly, BSW has refused to participate in any cordon sanitaire engineered by the CDU/SPD establishment in hopes of freezing AfD out of any potential government anywhere in Germany.
So I'm hearing that the German federal government is now threatening to outlaw AfD. Chancellor Merz, a scared little man, gave an angry speech in which he said he will not allow AfD to destroy everything that Germany has built since Adenauer (the German leader before Adenauer was Hitler, so the implication was clear). Then he said something very revealing: that he would not allow Germany to return to nationalism, which he clearly identified with Naziism.
So a German government that favors policies that are in the interest of Germany and the German people would be a return to Naziism as he sees it. And outlawing a political party because too many voters favor it would somehow be a defense of democracy!
From the American perspective it's simply bizarre, but it's contemporary Europe. Thankfully, there are growing signs that the European peoples are starting to reject it.
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RE: Germany's far-right AfD dominates state election; but may need coalition partner - Yazata - Sep 7, 2026
Here's the AfD's political program, in English. It doesn't really seem all that radical at all.
https://www.afd.de/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/2017-04-12_afd-grundsatzprogramm-englisch_web.pdf
RE: Germany's far-right AfD dominates state election; but may need coalition partner - confused2 - Sep 7, 2026
Strengthen the German Armed Forces 30
4.4.1 No European Army
4.4.2 Reinstate Compulsory Military Service
A well armed white European state is what we were seeing before WW2.