
AfD Hits Record 42% in Saxony-Anhalt, Opens 18-Point Lead Over CDU
With just four months until the state election, the right-wing party is on track for a potential outright majority while Germany’s mainstream parties face collapse in the east.

With just four months until the state election, the right-wing party is on track for a potential outright majority while Germany’s mainstream parties face collapse in the east.

England, Scotland, Wales: no respite for PM Starmer as voters signal a major political realignment.

The upcoming elections reveal a familiar pattern of German politics: the cordon sanitaire ends up strengthening the political Left.

An SPÖ-FPÖ coalition in Burgenland would be another crack in the ‘firewall’ that has been put in place around the FPÖ by the other parties.

Voters in Styria punished national leaders for snubbing the winner of the federal elections.

Mainstream parties are threatening to ban the AfD for adhering to parliamentary rules.

Recent regional elections have left the leftist coalition in tatters.

The results are described as a “wake-up call” for Petr Fiala’s center-right government before next year’s parliamentary elections.

Local issues may determine the outcome of these elections, but EU-critical parties are looking ahead to the national vote next year.

Mainstream media depicts AfD as suffering huge losses in Thuringia elections when the opposite is true.