The founder of a minor populist party that has emerged as a potential kingmaker following elections in the eastern German state of Saxony-Anhalt has accused the far-right Alternative for Germany

The AfD is appealing to lawmakers from Merz's conservatives to support ‌its bid to rule the eastern state, in what would be the first time a far-right party takes power at state level in postwar Germany.

The AfD may not end up controlling Germany's Saxony-Anhalt state despite a landslide election victory, but the far-right party's "dream result" sends a clear message.

The far-right party won 44 percent of the vote in elections in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt.

The likely leader of the eastern ⁠German ⁠state of Saxony-Anhalt, the far-right Alternative ⁠for Germany's Ulrich Siegmund, suggested a weapons producer could be allowed to ​operate in the state to provide resources for his party's planned deportation campaigns.

Two German state elections Sunday could deal a double blow to embattled Chancellor Friedrich Merz, two weeks after his party suffered a stunning defeat at

The German welfare organization AWO (Arbeiterwohlfahrt) has sounded the alarm about the potential impact of a possible mass departure of migrants and its consequences for the care sector. The warning comes in response to the landslide election success of the anti-migrant Alternative for Germany (AfD) party in the state of Saxony-Anhalt.

SGP speakers traced the rise of the AfD to three decades of social decline and militarism driven from above by the entire political establishment, and called for the independent mobilisation of the working class to defeat it.