BerlinThe AfD won nearly 44% in Saxony-Anhalt.
No far-right party has won power in Germany since World War Two.
Chancellor Friedrich Merz called the party’s deportation plan “ethnic cleansing,” warning hospitals and care homes would empty of skilled workers.
AfD candidate Ulrich Siegmund is courting other parties to become state premier.
How each outlet framed it
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- BBC
- cites Trump's approval linking AfD to immigration policy, emphasizes first far-right state power attempt since 1945
- Yahoo
- foregrounds sectoral economic collapse — care homes, hospitals, restaurants unable to function without migrant workers