{"id":4059,"date":"2026-09-08T03:35:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T03:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vaultinsider.top\/?p=4059"},"modified":"2026-09-08T03:35:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T03:35:00","slug":"germany-built-a-firewall-so-the-far-right-could-never-take-power-again-it-just-failed-in-saxony-anhalt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vaultinsider.top\/?p=4059","title":{"rendered":"Germany built a &#8216;firewall&#8217; so the far-right could never take power again. It just failed in Saxony-Anhalt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/img-assets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/GettyImages-2293507923-e1788802695396.jpg?w=2048\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Alternative for Germany, or AfD, has established itself as a significant political force in the 13 years since its founding, but it has never been part of any state or federal government. That\u2019s a result of what is often called a \u201cfirewall\u201d against cooperation with the anti-immigrant, far-right party.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That firewall faces its biggest test after\u00a0AfD won a landslide victory\u00a0in Sunday\u2019s election in the eastern German state of Saxony-Anhalt.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Germany\u2019s mainstream parties have long said they would not work with Alternative for Germany, which is classified by Germany\u2019s\u00a0domestic intelligence agency\u00a0as an extremist group in some regions of the country \u2014 including the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt. Any dealing by mainstream parties with AfD is particularly sensitive in view of\u00a0Germany\u2019s Nazi past.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Many Germans had believed their country had developed an immunity to nationalism and assertions of racial superiority after confronting the\u00a0horrors of its Nazi past\u00a0through education and laws to outlaw persecution.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But as it turns out, that conviction was mistaken, and similar to voters across Europe and elsewhere, voters in Germany are increasingly empowering the extreme far-right party.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">AfD has rejected any accusations of being undemocratic or even anti-constitutional and has repeatedly pushed back against the firewall.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The firewall taboo has sometimes forced other parties into unusual alliances to keep AfD out of power \u2014 for instance, a three-party coalition straddling ideological divisions that governs the eastern state of Thuringia since AfD emerged as the strongest party\u00a0for the first time in a regional election\u00a0there two years ago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In\u00a0Germany\u2019s national election last year, AfD achieved the best showing by a far-right party since World War II and became the strongest political force in parts of the country. AfD became the biggest opposition party in parliament after Chancellor Friedrich Merz\u2019s center-right Christian Democrats upheld the firewall and formed an unpopular coalition with the center-left Social Democrats.<\/p>\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The firewall could crack after AfD\u2019s latest victory<\/h4>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">AfD won 43.8% of the vote in Sunday\u2019s election, more than double its showing five years ago in the state, while Merz\u2019s party lost about half its support.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Merz has strictly rejected any kind of cooperation with AfD in the past and top officials reiterated that stance on Sunday. But other parties in the newly elected state parliament may be less likely to keep up the firewall.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The AfD candidate for governor, Ulrich Siegmund, aims to become the first far-right head of a state government and has already said he will reach out to all other parties and individual lawmakers to assemble a governing majority.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While Siegmund has rejected an AfD minority government, his party could possibly govern with the hard-left BSW party, which received 5.3% of the vote. The two parties share a Russia-friendly course and oppose immigration but do not agree on some other subjects.<\/p>\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">BSW could help AfD run Germany\u2019s first far-right state government since World War II<\/h4>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Monday, BSW\u2019s lead candidate in the election, Thomas Schulze, expressed his party\u2019s willingness to help an AfD governor take office in the state parliament.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Forming a government that excludes the AfD would only be possible if all the other parties that were elected worked together \u2014 CDU, Social Democrats, the Greens, the Left Party, and the BSW. However, a coalition involving five partners would be extremely unusual, very complicated and prone to instability.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s also possible that newly elected lawmakers from other parties could defect to AfD \u2014 it would only need three people to get a majority to govern.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Political analyst Volker Resing said AfD may be able to overcome the firewall after its strong showing in Saxony-Anhalt, with BSW potentially serving as the kingmaker.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThis tiny party could now play a decisive role in determining the future of Saxony-Anhalt,\u201d he told The Associated Press.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Resing said \u201cit is still unclear\u201d whether the parties will join forces based on their common view toward Russia to overcome the firewall and succeed in forming Germany\u2019s first far-right state government since the end of the Nazi era.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>#Germany #built #firewall #farright #power #failed #SaxonyAnhalt<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alternative for Germany, or Af&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4060,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2668,1018,1330,5202,6964,4054,1110,6965],"class_list":["post-4059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-finance-news","tag-built","tag-elections","tag-failed","tag-farright","tag-firewall","tag-germany","tag-power","tag-saxonyanhalt"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Germany built a &#039;firewall&#039; so the far-right could never take power again. 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