Far-right AfD wins big in Germany's Saxony-Anhalt election

aawsat.com (Arabic)

Germany's far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party won a landslide victory in the Saxony-Anhalt state election, positioning it to lead a local government for the first time since 1945. The anti-immigration, Russia-friendly party captured 44 percent of the vote, far surpassing the Christian Democratic Union's (CDU) less than 18 percent. Chancellor Friedrich Merz called the defeat a "deep shock" and the CDU's harshest electoral loss in decades. Former US President Donald Trump's supporters celebrated the outcome, with ex-ambassador Richard Grenell calling it a "huge victory" and a "new day in Germany."


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