On September 6, 2026, the eastern German state of Saxony-Anhalt holds an election that could produce something unseen since the end of the Second World War: a far-right party governing alone at the state level. The AfD, polling above 40 percent and officially classified as a proven far-right organization, stands at the edge of an absolute parliamentary majority — an outcome made more likely not by its own strength alone, but by the quiet arithmetic of smaller parties failing to clear the 5 percent threshold required to enter parliament. What appears to be a technical procedural detail has beco