{"id":3975,"date":"2026-09-06T21:27:38","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T21:27:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vaultinsider.top\/?p=3975"},"modified":"2026-09-06T21:27:38","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T21:27:38","slug":"alternative-for-germany-could-form-the-countrys-first-far-right-state-government-since-world-war-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vaultinsider.top\/?p=3975","title":{"rendered":"Alternative for Germany could form the country\u2019s first far-right state government since World War II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/img-assets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/GettyImages-2291877388-e1788725195226.jpg?w=2048\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The far-right Alternative for Germany was projected to win a strong victory in a regional election Sunday, but it wasn\u2019t immediately clear whether it would be able to fulfill its ambition of forming the country\u2019s first far-right state government since World War II.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The party of German\u2019s unpopular leader,\u00a0Chancellor Friedrich Merz, was set for a disastrous result in the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt. The anti-migration and Russia-friendly Alternative for Germany\u2019s candidate for governor said that \u201cwe have written history.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ulrich Siegmund, 35, told public broadcaster ARD that voters had sent a signal that \u201cthings cannot carry on like this\u201d and that it was \u201calso a signal toward Berlin.\u201d Of Germany\u2019s unpopular leader, he said: \u201cA very good campaigner for us in this election campaign was Friedrich Merz. Every day this man is in the chancellery is one too many.\u201d<\/p>\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">AfD wanted to govern on its own<\/h4>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Alternative for Germany, or AfD, went into the vote seeking an absolute majority in the state legislature to govern on its own. That would overcome\u00a0the so-called firewall\u00a0of mainstream parties\u2019 refusal to work with AfD, but it was unclear long after polls closed whether it would happen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A first state government would be the biggest prize in the anti-migration party\u2019s 13-year history, at a time of widespread discontent with a national government that has yet to persuade voters that it can get the country\u2019s\u00a0sluggish economy\u00a0moving.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Whether or not AfD can form a government, the projected result is a blow to Merz, whose center-right party has led Saxony-Anhalt for 24 years. Unlike other countries in Europe, modern Germany hasn\u2019t yet had a far-right or right-wing populist party leading a national, state or major-city government.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">AfD is the\u00a0biggest opposition party\u00a0in Germany\u2019s national parliament and is strongest in the formerly communist and less prosperous east, where Saxony-Anhalt is located.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Its regional branch in Saxony-Anhalt is one of several classified as a proven right-wing extremist group by the domestic intelligence agency, which points to members\u2019 denigration of migrants from Muslim countries among other things.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The party talks of \u201cremigration,\u201d a politically charged term for the deportation of immigrants. Its leader in a neighboring state appealed\u00a0two convictions\u00a0for knowingly using a Nazi slogan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">AfD vehemently rejects accusations of extremism and says they\u2019re politically motivated.<\/p>\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Big decline for German leader\u2019s party<\/h4>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Projections for ARD and ZDF public television, based on exit polls and partial counting, put AfD at a bit over 44% of the vote, more than double its showing five years ago in the region of 2.1 million people west of Berlin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That was far ahead of Merz\u2019s Christian Democratic Union which was seen polling 18% and losing about half its support. The Left Party, the center-left Social Democrats and Greens were seen taking around 9% each.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was unclear whether the BSW party would get the 5% of the vote needed to win seats. The projections put AfD at least marginally short of an absolute majority, though that could change.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">AfD\u2019s national co-leader, Alice Weidel, described the projected result as \u201csensational\u201d and said that \u201cwe have received a very clear mandate to govern here.\u201d The party\u2019s \u201chand is outstretched to all who want to make Saxony-Anhalt better and move Germany forward,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A visibly disappointed incumbent governor, Sven Schulze, congratulated AfD on becoming the state\u2019s strongest political force and said that \u201cwe as the CDU will also have to deal with this result,\u201d without specifying how.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Franziska Hoppermann, the national general-secretary of Merz\u2019s party, rejected the idea of backing off its refusal to deal with AfD.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAfD is a right-wing extremist party. It wants to leave the euro; that would be economic downfall \u2026 it works closely together with Russia, it wants a completely different social model,\u201d she said. \u201cWe will not work with them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There already has been one case in which AfD won a state election but didn\u2019t end up governing. That was two years ago in\u00a0neighboring Thuringia, where a CDU governor took power with a minority government, but against a regional AfD that was well short of a majority.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If the result allows Schulze to try to put together some kind of alliance with smaller parties, that would be delicate, because it would require at least some tacit support from the Left Party, a hard-left party with which the CDU refuses to form coalitions.<\/p>\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Germany\u2019s states have extensive powers<\/h4>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Germany\u2019s 16 states have extensive powers, for example in overseeing security matters and running the education system.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Siegmund has listed among his top priorities \u201ca deportation offensive\u201d and dropping incentives for people to come to Germany and \u201cexploit our social system.\u201d He wants to initiate a long process to withdraw Saxony-Anhalt from the regional public broadcaster, citing concerns about \u201cdisinformation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">AfD in Saxony-Anhalt wants to allow home schooling, which so far isn\u2019t permitted in Germany. It pledges to ban schools from officially raising the rainbow flag and ensure they fly the national flag. It opposes taxpayers\u2019 money being \u201cgiven away\u201d to Ukraine and says it would push to lift sanctions against Russia, but that isn\u2019t a matter state governments can decide.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">State governments also sit in Germany\u2019s upper house of parliament, which has to approve some government legislation. The influence there of Saxony-Anhalt, one of the smaller states in a nation of 83.5 people, is limited \u2014 it controls four of the 69 votes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>#Alternative #Germany #form #countrys #farright #state #government #World #War<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The far-right Alternative for &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3976,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2334,6861,5202,5756,4054,998,2287,356,51],"class_list":["post-3975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-finance-news","tag-alternative","tag-countrys","tag-farright","tag-form","tag-germany","tag-government","tag-state","tag-war","tag-world"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Alternative for Germany could form the country\u2019s first far-right state government since World War II - 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