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Triumph of the AfD: how will the far-right shake up Germany?

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September 10, 2026

The AfD's landslide victory marks a turning point. What are the consequences for Germany when a far-right party wins so decisively in Saxony-Anhalt?

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Nadine Lindner, political correspondent for Germany's public radio Deutschlandradio, reporting for years on German federal politics and the parties shaping it.

 

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Malte Lehming, senior political commentator at Berlin daily broadsheet Der Tagesspiegel.

 

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Michaela Küfner, our Chief Political Editor here at Deutsche Welle 

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