Historic election result in Saxony-Anhalt: AfD doubles its share of the vote to 43.8 percent

Saxony-Anhalt has voted: The AfD doubles to 43.8 percent, the CDU falls to 17.2 percent, the BSW moves into the state parliament. Political scientist Benjamin Höhne from Chemnitz University of Technology, entrepreneur Martin Menz from Halle an der Saale and Handelsblatt political department head Leila Al-Serori classify the historical result in a discussion. You can hear the whole conversation in this episode.

Among other things, they answer the following questions: How stable would an AfD minority government be with the help of the BSW? What does this mean for Friedrich Merz and the reform plans in Berlin? And how does the economy view demands such as lifting sanctions against Russia or leaving the euro, while there is a shortage of skilled workers and industry is shrinking?