In Saxony-Anhalt, a region shaped by the anxieties of post-reunification Germany, voters are poised to hand the far-right Alternative for Germany party something the country has not witnessed since the darkest chapter of its history: sole governing power in a German state. The AfD's potential outright majority would mark not a protest registered in opposition but a mandate claimed in full — a moment that forces Germany, and Europe, to ask what becomes of a democratic order when enough citizens choose to vote against it. The outcome will test whether the constitutional architecture built from t