Tom Nuttall

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Economist Podcasts · All right on the night: AfD’s victory · 7 Sep 2026 podcast

Had the BSW not made it into parliament, then we'd be looking at a very different set of circumstances this morning.

So now there's going to be a lot of attention on how that party decides to position itself.

I think this is highly likely.

Ulrich Siegmund from the AFD has said that he would not want to lead a minority government, and there doesn't appear to be an alternative to that right now.

I'm also not sure that he would want to make himself hostage to the BSW, which is a very complicated, troubled party.

They split in a neighbouring state just last week, putting the government there into jeopardy.

So if I was in the AFD's position, I'm not sure I'd want to make myself

of hostage to that sort of party.

So if none of this works out, I mean, it will take some time for all of this stuff to play out.

But if none of it works out, then we really are in stalemate because under the laws of Saxony and Howe, there is no time limit in which a vote for the minister president has to take place.

So then Schultz can just carry on as acting state premier, more or less indefinitely, at least that's what the law says.

So you can imagine that we enter a stalemate

that eventually the parliament decides it would need a two-thirds majority, but the parliament decides to hold fresh elections maybe sometime next year.

It's not at all clear how things are going to proceed, but I would say that the chances of Germany having its first ever far-right state premier since the Second World War are higher this morning than we expected they were going to be.

Well, there's a hell of a lot of soul searching going on this morning, as you can imagine.

44% for a party that the state's own intelligence services describe as right-wing extremist is just a body blow to a country that built its entire post-war identity on excluding extremists from power.

But that's where we are.

The AfD is a more radical party than a lot of its counterparts across Europe.

It rallies behind the banner of re-migration.

Large parts of the party have a sort of ethno-nationalist idea of what they want Germany to become.

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