AfD projected to win Saxony-Anhalt, giving a rightwing extremist-classified party its first state government in postwar Germany

Exit polls on 6 September 2026 project the AfD winning Saxony-Anhalt with 44.5% — enough for an absolute majority, the party's stated condition for taking power. Germany's domestic intelligence agency classifies the AfD in that state as "rightwing extremist." No such party has led a German state government since World War II. The CDU, which governed since 2021, collapsed to 18.5%. Federal institutional and legal responses remain unclear.