Skip to main contentBoth the far-right AfD and the smaller populist BSW party campaigned to halt Germany's energy transition and resume Russian gas and oil imports to lower energy costs.AfD's main candidate in the Saxony-Anhalt state election Ulrich Siegmund (r) and German co-leader of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party Alice WeidelPhoto: TOBIAS SCHWARZ / AFP via GettyPolicy