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Friedrich Merz says Alternative für Deutschland is ‘dividing our society’ after party won nearly 44% of vote in Saxony-Anhalt state electionEurope live – latest updatesGermany’s chancellor, Friedrich Merz, has accused the far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) of seeking “ethnic cleansing” with its “remigration” drive, after the nativist party’s seismic weekend victory in a state election.In their first public confrontation since Sunday’s shock outcome in Saxony-Anhalt, Merz said at a raucous parliamentary debate that the AfD would take an axe to one of the pillars of the German economy with a racist campaign of mass deportations. Continue reading...

• Germany’s far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party is poised for a historic breakthrough in the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt. • Interim results project the AfD will secure a record 44% of the vote, significantly leading the conservative Christian Democratic Union at 17%. • A victory would mark the first time in post-war Germany that a far-right party has taken control of a state government.

Alarm that Berlin and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania may fall next after party’s Saxony-Anhalt election victory‘It breaks my heart’: victory sparks dismay Europe live – latest updatesThousands of Germans have staged protests against the far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) after the party’s watershed victory in a state election, warning it posed a danger in two more polls this month.Demonstrators at Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate held a peaceful pro-democracy rally denouncing the anti-immigrant, pro-Russian AfD, which has called for mass deportations of asylum seekers and a rollback of state support for renewable energy and public broadcasting. Continue reading...

• Germany's far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party is projected to win a key state election. • Germany's intelligence agency classifies the AfD as a far-right extremist organization. • This victory suggests the party is moving closer to potentially achieving national rule.

• The far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party won a state election in Saxony-Anhalt. • The party lacks an absolute majority in the state parliament, meaning it cannot govern without partners or supporters to tolerate a minority government. • Other political parties have ruled out acting as kingmakers by lending formal support to the AfD's candidate for premier.

• The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party won a landslide victory in the state election in Saxony-Anhalt this past Sunday. • The party has remained excluded from state and federal governments for 13 years due to a political "firewall" against cooperating with anti-immigrant groups. • This victory puts pressure on the German chancellor as the AfD establishes itself as a dominant political force in eastern Germany.

• The Alternative for Germany (AfD) party won 44.5% of the vote in a recent political shock. • The party's victory threatens the political consensus required for the European Union to finance Ukraine and impose sanctions on Moscow. • A divided Europe could weaken collective leverage against Russia, though some right-wing governments in Italy and Poland are pushing for higher defense spending.