Germany’s far-right and avowedly pro-Israel Alternative for Germany (AfD) has swept the state election in Saxony-Anhalt, bringing the party within reach of governing a German state for the first time since the end of the Nazi period.The AfD secured 44.5 percent of the vote, according to an ARD exit poll, more than doubling its 2021 share. Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s conservative Christian Democratic Union trailed far behind on 18.5 percent. Reuters reported turnout of about 76 percent, significantly higher than is typical for German state elections. "We have made history in this country," Ulrich Siegmund, the AfD’s 35-year-old lead candidate in...
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