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German chancellor declares AfD state election win 'a disaster'

Exit polls showed the AfD at 37% in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, while Merz’s conservatives fell to 5.5% and barely cleared the threshold.

Summary by SBS News
The far-right AfD is now Germany's most popular party nationally, but remains shut out of government by its rivals.

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For the first time since the war, the CDU is not represented in a German state parliament. This is an unprecedented situation for a party steeped in tradition that has always been at the top of German politics.

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SBS News broke the news in Artarmon, Australia on Sunday, September 20, 2026.
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