Several thousand people gathered at the Berlin Brandenburg Gate in protest after the far-right AfD reached a landslide win in the state elections of Saxony-Anhalt ▻ ↧ Far-right win leaves Germany's Merz shaken as AfD plots path to power Chancellor Friedrich Merz ruled out working with the Alternative for Germany on Monday after the ​far-right party surged into first place in state elections in Saxony-Anhalt, but he conceded the result had shaken his party "to its very foundations".