Germany’s far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) won a landslide victory in a key regional election on Sunday in the ex-communist east, according to exit polls, but it remains unclear whether it can win an absolute majority to govern.
“We have made history today,” said a jubilant Ulrich Siegmund, the 35-year-old lead candidate of the anti-immigration AfD in Saxony-Anhalt state, as the vote count continued.
The AfD won at least 44 per cent, more than doubling its support, and far ahead of the…
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