‘We should have another war’: The shock rise of Germany’s hard-Right AfD | Firsthand
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This Sunday, voters in Germany’s former Communist East will elect the next regional government of Saxony-Anhalt, one of the country’s 16 federal states. Polling at about 40 per cent, AfD, a Kremlin-friendly populist party, is projected to win the elections by a landslide and trigger a crisis of confidence in chancellor Friedrich Merz’s fragile government. His Christian Democratic Union (CDU) is on about 23 per cent in the state. Regional elections may not be seismic events in Britain, but in Germany this is the most pivotal one in decades. The AfD, which is classified by the German intelligence services as a Right-wing extremist group, is tantalisingly close to winning an absolute majority of seats in the Saxony-Anhalt state parliament and forming its first regional government. Sunday’s vote could be the first time that a radical Right-wing party has controlled a German state since 1945. An AfD state government would control education, state intelligence, asylum and poli
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