The impact of the extreme right wing AfD’s electoral victory in a German state with just 1.7 million voters suggest that it is not only democracy’s institutions that open the way to enemies of the system.

German voters in Saxony-Anhalt could give the right-wing extremist political party, the Alternative for Germany, or AfD, its most significant achievement since its founding in…

AfD's decisive victory in Saxony-Anhalt brings the party on the verge of forming the country's first far-right regional government