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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
World
Alex Croft

The ex-Stasi agent, the ‘pornstar’ and the perfume salesman: the AfD candidates set to take power in Germany

After winning a historic state election in Saxony-Anhalt, the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) stands on the brink of becoming the first far-right party to gain power in Germany since World War Two.

The AfD won 44 per cent of the vote in what chancellor Friedrich Merz called a “seismic” defeat by a party classified by German intelligence as a right-wing extremist organisation.

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