The vote for the state legislature in Saxony-Anhalt has gained outsized prominence because it represents the best chance yet of a governor’s post for the far-right, anti-migration Alternative for Germany, or AfD.
\n\nVoters cast ballots Sunday in Saxony-Anhalt’s state election, with the far-right AfD party hoping to make history by winning its first state government in postwar Germany. (AP Video shot by Pietro De Cristofaro, Daniel Niemann and Fanny Brodersen)
\n\nGerman Chancellor and Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party leader Friedrich Merz, left, and Saxony-Anhalt State Governor and top candidate Sven Schulze give a press statement after visiting UPM Biochemicals in Leuna, Germany, Thursday, Sept. 3, 2026. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)
\n\nTop candidate Ulrich Siegmund shows thumbs up beside party leaders Tino Chrupalla and Alice Weidel, from left, at an election party of the “Alternative for Germany” (AfD) after the Saxony-Anhalt state elections in Magdeburg, eastern Germany, Sunday, Sept. 6, 2026. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)
\n\nUlrich Siegmund, center, lead candidate and co-chair of the AfD state parliamentary group in Saxony-Anhalt, celebrates with Alice Weidel, federal chairwoman and co-chair of the AfD parliamentary group in the Bundestag, and Tino Chrupalla, federal chairman and co-chair of the AfD parliamentary group in the Bundestag, after the…
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