Both 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.

Victory in Saxony-Anhalt on Sunday would mark a postwar watershed, making the AfD the first radical right party to govern a German state since 1945

A version of this article was first published by the German investigative outlet CORRECTIV This Sunday, Alternative for Germany (AfD) could assume power for the first time ever in…