German Chancellor Friedrich Merz doubled down Monday on pushing through unpopular reforms to Europe’s largest economy after a far-right party surged to a landslide victory in a regional election, with a very good chance of forming the first far-right state government since the Nazi era. (AP Video by Pietro de Cristofaro and Fanny Brodersen)
\n\nCo-leader of Alternative for Germany party, or AfD, Alice Weidel, leaves for a press conference in Berlin, Germany, Monday, Sept. 7, 2026. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)
\n\nCo-leaders of Alternative for Germany party, or AfD, Alice Weidel, center, and Tino Chrupalla, right, and top candidate for the Saxony-Anhalt state elections Ulrich Siegmund, left, leave a press conference in Berlin, Germany, Monday, Sept. 7, 2026. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)
\n\nChancellor Friedrich Merz is sitting in a meeting of the CDU Federal Executive Committee at the Konrad Adenauer House, in Berlin, Monday, Sept. 7, 2026, the day after AfD stunning success in elections. (Michael Kappeler/dpa via AP)
\n\nFrom left, Chancellor Friedrich Merz, Sven Schulze, Minister-President of Saxony-Anhalt and state chairman of the CDU in Saxony-Anhalt, his party’s top candidate for the state election on Sept. 6, and Karin Prien, Federal Minister of Education, Family, Senior Citizens, Women, and Youth, and Deputy…
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