AfD has Saxony-Anhalt mandate, defeated premier says

Sven Schulze, the defeated centre-right premier of Germany's Saxony-Anhalt state, said Monday that the far-right AfD had won the right to try to form a governing majority.

"We are the opposition -- the mandate to govern now lies with the AfD," said Schulze, a CDU politician.

Schulze remains Saxony-Anhalt's caretaker premier until a new government is formed.