AfD just won 44% in a German state. Now Germany's firewall faces its biggest test.
- German: 49 events in the last 90 days
- Previous: earlier the same day · Far-right party wins a German state election for the first time since WWII
What happened
Germany's far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) won a record 44% in Saxony-Anhalt on Sunday, leaving a small party with seats that could determine whether it can lead the nation's first far-right state government since World War II. Why it matters: Germany rebuilt its democracy after Nazi rule with unusually strong safeguards against extremism. AfD's breakthrough shows those barriers aren't stopping Europe's far r…
Summary assembled by rule from the sources below