AfD wins 44% in Saxony‑Anhalt; reservist chief wants secret plan returned

Questions about this coverage

How did the left and right cover AfD wins 44% in Saxony‑Anhalt; reservist chief wants secret plan…?

Of the 7 outlets on this story carrying a published leaning rating, 14% are rated left, 29% are rated centre, 57% are rated right. Those percentages are shares of the rated outlets, not of every outlet that ran it, which was 19. The sections above set out what each side emphasised, in its own terms.

Is AfD wins 44% in Saxony‑Anhalt; reservist chief wants secret plan… left or right?

Too few of the outlets on this story carry a published leaning rating to say. 7 of them do, and this site does not characterise a field under 12: at that size one newsroom filing moves the share by ten points. The percentages above are the count as it stands.

Is the coverage of AfD wins 44% in Saxony‑Anhalt; reservist chief wants secret plan… biased?

AfD wins 44% in Saxony‑Anhalt; reservist chief wants secret plan returned is one event reported by 19 outlets, and this page does not rate the story as biased or unbiased. What it publishes is the spread: which outlets ran it, where named rating organisations place each of them on the spectrum, and what each side chose to lead with. A leaning rating describes an outlet's record over time, not this article, and the two should not be run together.

Which side is not reporting AfD wins 44% in Saxony‑Anhalt; reservist chief wants secret plan…?

When we first saw this story, outlets rated left had barely covered it. Coverage accretes for hours after an event, so that is where to look rather than a verdict — the split above is the current count, and it is the one to read.

Which outlets covered AfD wins 44% in Saxony‑Anhalt; reservist chief wants secret plan…?

19 that we know of, every one of them listed further up this page with a link to its own report and to what we hold on the publisher. Nothing here is a summary of somebody else's summary: the outlets are named so the original reporting can be read.

What percentage of the vote did the AfD win in Saxony‑Anhalt?

The AfD secured just under 44 percent of the vote in the Saxony‑Anhalt state election, making it the party with the largest share of the electorate.

What is the Operationsplan Deutschland?

Operationsplan Deutschland is a classified defence document of more than 1,000 pages that outlines Germany’s contingency plans for national and NATO defence and is stored by all 16 German state governments.

Why does the Reservist Association want the plan retrieved?

Bastian Ernst, head of the Reservist Association, warned that if the AfD formed the Saxony‑Anhalt government the plan and related information could flow to Russia, so he called for the document to be taken back to the federal defence ministry.

Which outlets reported on the story?

The story appeared in one left‑rated outlet (Zeit Online) and four right‑rated outlets (Berliner Morgenpost, Frankfurter Allgemeine, n‑tv and Welt), with additional digests from several other publications.