Saxony-Anhalt vote could see first post-war far-right regional government | DW News

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The far-right AfD party has sent shockwaves across Germany -- and the world -- by surging to a landslide victory in a state election in Saxony Anhalt. Despite achieving its strongest-ever result, the AfD still fell short of an absolute majority that would have guaranteed Germany's first far-right state government since World War II. Chapters: 00:00 AfD wins a landslide victory in Saxony-Anhalt 00:43 Election results and seat distribution in the state parliament 01:11 Report: political fallout for Friedrich Merz and the CDU 02:01 AfD celebrates victory and targets national power 03:20 Pressure on the CDU firewall against cooperation with AfD 04:25 Interview: Johannes Kiess, right-wing extremism expert at Leipzig University 05:13 Bernd Riegert, DW Political Correspondent, on reactions in Magdeburg 06:14 Simon Young, DW Political Correspondent 08:05 National implications of the AfD's victory and the firewall debate 11:50 Interview: Roland Abold, Managing Director of Infratest d

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