Far-right surges in German state election

The AfD's landslide win in Saxony-Anhalt has sent shockwaves through Berlin and beyond, with the German Chancellor Friedrich Merz declaring, “we can't simply go on as before.”

Friedrich Merz said his conservative CDU was shaken ‘to its very foundations’ after far-right victory in Saxony-Anhalt A “shocked” and chastened Friedrich Merz has vowed to stay in office despite the far right’s triumph in a state election that has brought anti-immigrant,…

Leader of far right AfD Alice Weidel waves a German flag at the AfD party headquarters in Berlin, Germany, Sunday, Feb. 23, 2025, after the German national election. How do we define the far-right? It’s a phrase which has been long associated with those on the political fringes,…