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AfD wins Saxony-Anhalt and not a majority. Europe still has to count.
Exit polls: the far right first in a German state vote, short of an absolute grip. Berlin will spend the holiday doing arithmetic.
The Rocket News · World Desk · MagdeburgSeptember 7, 2026 · 4 min read
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Exit polls out of Saxony-Anhalt on Sunday put Alternative for Germany first in a state election and short of an absolute majority. Al Jazeera and the Guardian timed the night. A first-place finish without the keys is still a first-place finish. Coalition math is the rest of the European week.
The World desk files it next to Hormuz, not instead of it. A German state is not a strait. It is a measure of how far the postwar floor has moved while America is on a holiday and a cargo jet sits in Miami grass.
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