AfD wins Saxony-Anhalt vote without majority as CDU suffers rout
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- The AfD, led by top candidate Ulrich Siegmund, won the Saxony-Anhalt state election by a wide margin but fell short of an absolute majority.
- The CDU, led by Minister-President Sven Schulze, finished second after heavy losses, with preliminary results giving it 17.2 percent.
- The SPD, Left, Greens and BSW entered the state parliament with single-digit results.
The AfD won Saxony-Anhalt's state election by a wide margin but failed to secure an absolute majority, according to preliminary results published on the state election authority's website.
The party, led by top candidate Ulrich Siegmund, took 43.8 percent. The CDU, headed by Minister-President Sven Schulze, suffered heavy losses and finished second with 17.2 percent.
The SPD, Left, Greens and BSW also cleared the threshold to enter the state parliament, but each recorded a single-digit result.
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Originally published by Der Standard in German. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.
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