Far-right seeks breakthrough in Germany

If Germany’s far-right AfD wins an outright majority in Saxony-Anhalt, it would shatter the political “firewall” that has kept the party out of government at both federal and state level since its founding in 2013

Alice Weidel (left), co-leader of Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, and Ulrich Siegmund, AfD top candidate for Saxony-Anhalt


Upcoming state elections

Sep 20: MECKLENBURG-WESTERN POMERANIA

Sep 6: SAXONY-ANHALT

Sep 20: BERLIN

GERMANY

PROJECTED VOTE SHARE (%)
AfD Alternative for Germany
CDU Christian Democrats
Left
*SPD Social Democrats
Greens
BSW
FDP
Others

42.1%
23.0
13.1
6.5
4.6
4.3
3.5
2.9

AfD is comfortably ahead in Saxony-Anhalt and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, and is polling third, narrowly behind CDU in famously liberal Berlin

*Weighted average of all institutes by PolitPro for Saxony-Anhalt parliamentary election as of August 23

Sources: Reuters, Politico, CSIS, PolitProPicture: Getty Images
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