AfD’s biggest win since World War II: Key takeaways from stunning election result that has put Germany’s ‘firewall’ to test

Germany’s AfD has recorded its strongest state-election performance since World War II, winning 39 of 83 seats in Saxony-Anhalt. Here are four key takeaways from the far-right party’s historic breakthrough and the political challenge it creates.

Germany’s AfD vows to build on ‘dream result’

Speaking in Berlin on Monday, Alice Weidel pledged to secure 40 per cent of the vote in the country’s next federal elections, due to be held by 2029, after the breakthrough in Saxony-Anhalt that left the party on the cusp of power in a regional parliament for the first time.