Inside Germany's hard-Right as AfD set for landslide election | 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. Read more here: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/09/03/how-nostalgia-for-russian-rule-could-hand-afd-keys-germany/ #germany #election #AfD #siegmund #Germany, #AfD #SaxonyAnhalt #GermanPolitics, #GermanElection #CDU #FriedrichMerz #FarRight, #EuropeanPolitics #WorldNews ► Sign up to the Telegraph's free new daily newsletter, From the Editor, bringing you the latest news, features and analysis from the Telegraph newsroom: www.telegraph.co.uk/customer/secure/newsletter/from-the-editor/?WT.mc_id=tmgoff_youtube_telegraphmain ► Get the lat
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