Germany's AfD just won its biggest state election victory in party history

IT'S HAPPENING The exit polls in Germany say that the AfD will win with almost 45% of the votes in the regional election in Saxony-Anhalt. This is a historic LANDSLIDE win for the right-wing party. A political earthquake just happened today. — PeterSweden (@PeterSweden7) September 6, 2026 🇩🇪 Likely future leader of Germany: 'In my first 100 days. I will close the borders, eliminate social benefits for migrants and carry out Germany's largest deportations.' Today her party had a historic election win. pic.twitter.com/fhNAUwXny3 — Casey Krol (@CaseyKrol) September 6, 2026 🚨🇩🇪 AfD leader Alice Weidel has just shattered the dreams of the EU and Friedrich Merz! "When we are in government, we will put the black-red-gold flag on every government building, on every school building." "Everywhere, black, red and gold will be flown as the colors of… pic.twitter.com/fKLWQ7H4De — Mario ZNA (@MarioBojic) September 6, 2026 Good Morning from Germany, where the political landscape in the East has been turned upside down: the far-right AfD (whose Saxony-Anhalt branch is officially classified as extremist by domestic intelligence) more than doubled its vote share to 43.8% from 20.8% in 2021, while the… pic.twitter.com/ORvvMNg96n — Holger Zschaepitz (@Schuldensuehner) September 7, 2026 Germany's AfD just won 43.8% in Saxony-Anhalt, taking 39 of 83 seats and more than doubling its 2021 vote share. The CDU collapsed to 17.2%. The bigger problem for Chancellor Friedrich Merz is that this is no longer just an eastern Germany protest vote. Current national polling has AfD around 28% versus roughly 21% for CDU/CSU. Read Also: Tiger Woods loses his drivers license for 5 years And AfD is now trying to turn the state victory into its first state government since World War II, while Merz is refusing cooperation. September 7 — AfD now leads Germany nationally https://www.reuters.com/commentary/breakingviews/germanys-far-right-is-slow-burning-economic-risk-2026-09-07/ Reuters says AfD is polling around 28% nationally, ahead of Merz's CDU. The state victory is therefore landing on top of an existing national lead. September 7 — Merz refuses to work with AfD https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/far-right-afd-courts-conservative-support-after-historic-german-state-election-2026-09-07/ AfD is appealing directly to CDU lawmakers for support, while Merz says there will be no cooperation. That creates a very strange situation: AfD won the election but may need defections or another party's support to actually govern. September 7 — Merz says the defeat shook the CDU https://www.dw.com/en/chancellor-merz-says-afd-result-changes-all-of-germany/a-79150560 Merz described the result as a catastrophe for the CDU while insisting he will continue his reform program. The problem is that voters in the state just rejected his party by a huge margin. September 5–7 — Two more state elections are coming https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/05/saxony-anhalt-far-right-afd-plans-german-state-poll Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and Berlin are the next tests. AfD was already polling competitively in both. A second and third strong showing would make the Saxony-Anhalt result look less like an isolated eastern Germany event.