2026年9月6日 / 美国东部时间23:25 / 美联社
极右翼选择党（AfD）在周日的州选举中取得压倒性胜利，但未能获得多数席位，无法组建二战以来德国首个极右翼州政府。
作为德国现任总理弗里德里希·默茨所属的政党，默茨领导的基民盟在萨克森-安哈尔特州遭遇惨败。这位反对移民、亲俄的选择党州长候选人表示，“我们书写了历史”，该党已获得明确的执政授权。
35岁的乌尔里希·齐格蒙德对公共广播公司ARD表示，选民们发出了“现状不能再继续下去”的信号。他还称，“弗里德里希·默茨是我们本次竞选活动中一位非常出色的推动者”。
选择党（简称AfD）此前试图在州议会中获得绝对多数席位，以单独执政并打破主流政党拒绝与其合作的所谓“防火墙”。
最终计票结果显示，选择党还差3个席位未能达到多数，在83个席位的议会中获得39席。齐格蒙德表示，该党不会参与组建少数政府这类“博弈”。但目前尚不清楚其分裂的对手阵营如何在不吸纳选择党的情况下组建稳定政府。
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如果能组建州政府，这将是这个反移民政党13年历史上获得的最大政治成果，而当前正值德国全国政府普遍不受欢迎之际——该政府尚未能说服选民其有能力推动德国疲软的经济复苏。
无论选择党最终能否执政，此次选举结果对默茨都是一记重击。他所在的中右翼基民盟已在萨克森-安哈尔特州执政24年。
与欧洲其他国家不同，现代德国从未有过极右翼或右翼民粹政党主导联邦、州或大城市政府。
选择党是德国联邦议会中最大的反对党，在原东德地区以及经济欠发达的东部各州实力最强，萨克森-安哈尔特州就位于该区域。
该党在萨克森-安哈尔特州的分支被德国国内情报机构归类为已证实的右翼极端主义团体，其依据包括该党成员诋毁来自穆斯林国家的移民等行为。
该党谈及“重新移民”——这一充满政治争议的术语指的是驱逐移民。其在邻州的领导人曾因故意使用纳粹口号被定罪并提起上诉。
选择党强烈否认有关极端主义的指控，称这些指控是出于政治动机。
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选择党获得了43.8%的选票，是该党五年前在柏林以西这个拥有210万人口的地区得票率的两倍多。
这一得票率远远领先于默茨的基民盟——后者仅获得17.2%的支持率，支持率流失近半，仅赢得15个席位。中左翼社民党得票率为9.3%，绿党为8.9%，左翼党为8.6%，三方各获得8个席位。
BSW党表示不会选举齐格蒙德或现任州长斯文·舒尔茨担任州长，但批评针对选择党的“防火墙”政策，该党获得5.3%的支持率和5个席位。
本次选举投票率高达77.8%。选择党似乎赢得了许多五年前未参加投票的选民的支持。
选择党全国联合领导人爱丽丝·魏德尔将此次选举结果形容为“轰动性的”。她表示，该党“向所有希望让萨克森-安哈尔特州变得更好、推动德国向前发展的人伸出了援手”。该党或希望吸引其他政党的脱党者。
舒尔茨祝贺选择党成为该州最强大的政治力量，并表示“作为基民盟，我们也必须应对这一选举结果”，但未具体说明将如何应对。
默茨所属政党的全国秘书长弗朗齐斯卡·霍普曼拒绝放弃拒绝与选择党合作的立场。
“选择党是一个右翼极端主义政党。它想要退出欧元区，那将导致经济崩溃……它与俄罗斯保持密切合作，想要推行完全不同的社会模式，”她说道，“我们不会与他们合作。”
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选择党此前曾在一次州选举中获胜，但最终未能组阁。那是在两年前的邻国图林根州，当时基民盟州长通过少数政府上台，但选择党当时的席位距离多数席位差距更大。
舒尔茨若试图组建反对选择党的联盟，将面临微妙局面——因为这至少需要获得左翼党的默许支持，而基民盟拒绝与这个极左翼政党组建联合政府。
德国16个州拥有广泛权力，例如负责监督安全事务和运营教育系统。
齐格蒙德将“驱逐移民攻势”列为首要任务之一，同时提议取消对前往德国“利用我们社会体系”的人士的激励措施。他还希望启动漫长程序，让萨克森-安哈尔特州退出地区公共广播机构，理由是担忧“虚假信息”。
萨克森-安哈尔特州的选择党希望允许目前在德国尚未合法化的家庭教育。该党承诺禁止学校官方悬挂彩虹旗，称其“代表了对家庭的贬低”，并确保学校悬挂德国国旗。
该党反对将纳税人的钱“赠予”乌克兰，表示将推动解除对俄罗斯的制裁，但这并非州政府有权决定的事项。
16个州的政府同时也是德国联邦参议院的组成部分，联邦参议院需要批准部分政府立法。萨克森-安哈尔特州作为拥有8350万人口的德国中较小的州之一，在联邦参议院的影响力有限——仅控制69票中的4票。
AfD wins big in German regional election, falls short of bid to become first far-right party to lead a state since WWII
September 6, 2026 / 11:25 PM EDT / AP / AP
The far-right Alternative for Germany party surged to a resounding victory in a regional election Sunday, but fell a little short of winning a majority in its quest to form the country’s first far-right state government since World War II.
The party of Germany’s unpopular leader, Chancellor Friedrich Merz, slumped to a disastrous result in the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt. The anti-migration and Russia-friendly Alternative for Germany’s candidate for governor said that “we have written history” and the party had a clear mandate to govern.
Ulrich Siegmund, 35, told public broadcaster ARD that voters had sent a signal that “things cannot carry on like this.” He said that “a very good campaigner for us in this election campaign was Friedrich Merz.”
Alternative for Germany, or AfD, was seeking an absolute majority in the state legislature to govern alone and overcome the so-called firewall of mainstream parties’ refusal to work with AfD.
Final results showed AfD falling three seats short, with 39 lawmakers in an 83-member parliament. Siegmund said it wouldn’t engage in “games” such as a minority government. But it wasn’t evident how its divided opponents could assemble any stable government without it.
Ulrich Siegmund, lead candidate of the far-right Alternative for Germany, celebrates a first exit poll win for AfD at the Messe trade fair halls following state elections in Saxony-Anhalt on September 6, 2026, in Magdeburg, Germany. Omer Messinger / Getty Images
A first state government would be the biggest prize in the anti-migration party’s 13-year history, at a time of widespread discontent with a national government that has yet to persuade voters that it can get the country’s sluggish economy moving.
Whether or not AfD ends up governing, the result is a blow to Merz, whose center-right party has led Saxony-Anhalt for 24 years.
Unlike other countries in Europe, modern Germany hasn’t yet had a far-right or right-wing populist party leading a national, state or major-city government.
AfD is the biggest opposition party in Germany’s national parliament and is strongest in the formerly communist and less prosperous east, where Saxony-Anhalt is located.
Its regional branch in Saxony-Anhalt is one of several classified as a proven right-wing extremist group by the domestic intelligence agency, which points to members’ denigration of migrants from Muslim countries, among other things.
The party talks of “remigration,” a politically charged term for the deportation of immigrants. Its leader in a neighboring state appealed two convictions for knowingly using a Nazi slogan.
AfD vehemently rejects accusations of extremism and says they’re politically motivated.
People demonstrate at a rally organized by the Hamburg Alliance Against the Far Right ahead of the state election in Saxony-Anhalt on Sept. 6, 2026. Marcus Golejewski/picture alliance via Getty Images
AfD won 43.8% of the vote, more than double its showing five years ago in the region of 2.1 million people west of Berlin.
That was far ahead of Merz’s Christian Democratic Union, which polled 17.2% — losing about half its support — and won 15 seats. The center-left Social Democrats polled 9.3%, the Greens 8.9% and the Left Party 8.6%, winning eight seats apiece.
The BSW party, which has said it wouldn’t elect either Siegmund or incumbent Sven Schulze as governor but criticizes the “firewall” against AfD, took 5.3% and five seats.
Turnout was very high at 77.8%. AfD appeared to have won over many people who didn’t vote at all five years ago.
AfD’s national co-leader, Alice Weidel, described the result as “sensational.” She said the party’s “hand is outstretched to all who want to make Saxony-Anhalt better and move Germany forward.” It may hope to attract defectors from other parties.
Schulze congratulated AfD on becoming the state’s strongest political force and said that “we as the CDU will also have to deal with this result,” without specifying how.
Franziska Hoppermann, the national general secretary of Merz’s party, rejected backing off its refusal to deal with AfD.
“AfD is a right-wing extremist party. It wants to leave the euro; that would be economic downfall … it works closely together with Russia, it wants a completely different social model,” she said. “We will not work with them.”
Alternative for Germany (AfD) party members and candidates celebrate at the party headquarters following an exit poll release during Saxony-Anhalt regional elections, in Magdeburg, Germany, on Sunday, Sept. 6, 2026. Krisztian Bocsi / Bloomberg via Getty Images
Once previously AfD won a state election but didn’t end up governing. That was two years ago in neighboring Thuringia, where a CDU governor took power with a minority government, but AfD was much further short of a majority there.
Any attempt by Schulze to put together an alliance against AfD would be delicate because it would require at least some tacit support from the Left Party, a hard-left party with which the CDU refuses to form coalitions.
Germany’s 16 states have extensive powers, for example in overseeing security matters and running the education system.
Siegmund has listed among his top priorities “a deportation offensive” and dropping incentives for people to come to Germany and “exploit our social system.” He wants to initiate a long process to withdraw Saxony-Anhalt from the regional public broadcaster, citing concerns about “disinformation.”
AfD in Saxony-Anhalt wants to allow home schooling, which so far isn’t permitted in Germany. It pledges to ban schools from officially raising the rainbow flag, which it says “stands for the devaluation of the family,” and ensure they fly the national flag.
It opposes taxpayers’ money being “given away” to Ukraine and says it would push to lift sanctions against Russia, but that isn’t a matter state governments can decide.
The 16 states’ governments also sit in Germany’s upper house of parliament, which has to approve some government legislation. The influence there of Saxony-Anhalt, one of the smaller states in a nation of 83.5 people, is limited — it controls four of the 69 votes.