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            <title><![CDATA[Merz under pressure as AfD gains and state elections loom]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Friedrich Merz is losing a record number of voters to the far right. To shore up support, he is promising to lower gasoline prices - but the question is whether that will be enough to keep the chancellor in power. Two state elections on Sunday could bring matters to a head.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2026 04:41:46 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Tens of thousands protest against far-right AfD after Saxony-Anhalt election win]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Tens of thousands of people protested on Saturday against the far-right AfD party, which won the state election in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, last weekend.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2026 18:26:10 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[AfD victory in Saxony-Anhalt could hit Ukrainian refugees and eastern transport routes, Germany fears]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[The far-right AfD party, which won the election in Germany's Saxony-Anhalt state, has promised to reduce support for Ukrainian refugees. The country’s authorities fear that the new government could hamper important transport routes to the east.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2026 06:10:09 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Expert: AfD victory in Saxony-Anhalt is a huge symbolic breakthrough]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[The German far-right party AfD's landslide victory in the state election in Saxony-Anhalt is also making a big impact nationally. "It's a huge thing symbolically," political science professor Ann-Kristin Kölln tells TT. Now a tricky government formation awaits in the federal state.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2026 04:34:12 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Far-right AfD wins landslide in Saxony-Anhalt election, falls short of majority]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[The German far-right AfD party has become the largest party in the state election in Saxony-Anhalt, but without an outright majority. "We have made history," says Ulrich Siegmund, the party's top candidate in the state, on the ARD television channel.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2026 01:30:15 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[AfD Landslide in Saxony-Anhalt Sends Shockwaves Through German Politics, Expert Says]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[The German far-right AfD's landslide victory in the state election in Saxony-Anhalt is also having a major impact nationally. It's a huge symbolic thing, says political science professor Ann-Kristin Kölln to TT.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2026 17:46:31 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[AfD becomes largest party in Saxony-Anhalt election, but falls short of majority]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[The German far-right AfD party has become the largest party in the state election in Saxony-Anhalt, but without winning an outright majority. "We have made history," says Ulrich Siegmund, the party's top candidate in the state, on ARD television.]]></description>
            <link>https://swedenherald.com/article/farright-afd-wins-largest-share-in-saxonyanhalt-state-election-exit-poll-shows</link>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2026 16:01:54 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[AfD’s Ulrich Siegmund eyes historic majority in Saxony-Anhalt election]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[He wants to scrap public service, improve relations with Russia and launch a large-scale deportation campaign. With the AfD's Ulrich Siegmund, one of Europe's most extreme far-right parties could win its own majority in a German state parliament - for the first time since the founding of the Federal Republic in 1949.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2026 05:45:07 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[AfD vows to deport undocumented migrants if it wins Saxony-Anhalt election]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party promises to deport undocumented migrants "from the first minute" if it wins the upcoming state election in Saxony-Anhalt.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2026 15:40:05 GMT</pubDate>
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