GERMANY ELECTION LIVE | AfD Leaders Weidel, Chrupalla, Siegmund Address Press After Historic Vote

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GERMANY STATE ELECTION LIVE | AfD Leaders Weidel, Chrupalla, Siegmund Address Press After Historic Vote Germany's Alternative for Germany (AfD) party has secured a historic victory in the Saxony-Anhalt state election, winning a record 44% of the vote and capturing 39 of the 83 seats in the regional parliament. While the far-right party fell just three seats short of an absolute majority, its unprecedented performance has triggered a major political crisis for Chancellor Friedrich Merz's Christian Democratic Union (CDU), which plummeted to less than 18% of the vote. In a live news conference from Magdeburg, AfD co-leaders Alice Weidel and Tino Chrupalla, alongside regional lead candidate Ulrich Siegmund, address the media to outline their path to government. Despite the CDU and other mainstream parties ruling out any cooperation with the AfD, party leadership maintains they have a clear mandate to govern, warning that maintaining the political 'firewall' will lead to prolonged instabi

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