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AfD takes 43.8% in Saxony-Anhalt but falls three seats short of majority
The far-right party's strongest state-level result leaves it unable to govern alone and facing a firewall from every other party, including the defeated CDU.
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Georg Maier
Interior Minister of Thuringia, Social Democratic Party
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AfD poised to break German firewall with Saxony-Anhalt victory
Ulrich Siegmund's party could take a state premiership on September 6, forcing Berlin to confront intelligence sharing, fiscal leverage and constitutional limits it has never tested.
