Sunday’s reckoning with Germany: anger in the abandoned East and the road to absolute power

Germany stands on the threshold of a political earthquake unlike anything it has experienced since the end of World War II, the article’s description says. Sunday’s state election in Saxony-Anhalt has long ceased to be merely a regional vote about road repairs and school funding.

Instead, the election has become a decisive litmus test for the whole country. The headline frames the contest through the anger of an abandoned East and the path toward absolute power.