"With exit polls predicting a 9.4 per cent share of the vote for The Left behind the CDU’s 18.4 per cent, the party leadership has indicated it would be open to an arrangement formalising support for a CDU-led government over AfD. But the CDU faces internal divisions over a possible alliance with a party on what it regards as the far left.
Mr Merz said ahead of the election last Sunday that they would “assess the situation in light of the election results” and “do everything we can to prevent Saxony-Anhalt from falling into the hands of the radicals”.
State premier Sven Schulze congratulated AfD in the wake of the exit poll and acknowledged the result showed it was the strongest party."
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