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Simon Ormiston

AfD's historic win splits Europe as populists cheer and Warsaw warns of 'traitors'

Alternative for Germany's dominant showing in Sunday's Saxony-Anhalt election has triggered starkly divided reactions across the continent, exposing the widening fault line between Europe's establishment centre and its emboldened populist right.

AfD won 43.8% of the vote, more than double its showing five years ago in the region of 2.1 million people west of Berlin.

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