Tobias Rausch, an MP from the far-right party, has been elected President of the Saxony-Anhalt State Parliament. For Merz, things are not looking any better now.

Essayist Alexander Grau: “Saying that those who vote for Alternative für Deutschland are not Christian will not win back those who have chosen the far right”. The risks and prospects following the triumph in Saxony-Anhalt

“Saxony-Anhalt is almost a ‘textbook example, in one of the economically weakest federal states, of how industry acts as a bulwark of democracy’,” says the vice-president of Confindustria

The Simson Schwalbe KR51, on which Ulrich Siegmund – the AfD politician who won the election in Saxony-Anhalt – has often been seen,

Recurring analyses suggest that it was men, manual workers, the poor and those with low levels of education who boosted the far-right vote in Saxony-Anhalt. It may well be that they have all become Nazis, but this is probably due to a lack of alternatives. And this is not just the case in Germany