‘We Can only Win’: The Rise of the Far Right in Eastern Germany
The AfD leads with 43% support in an INSA poll, while the CDU trails at 21% and smaller parties could determine control of the state parliament.
- On Sunday, voters in Saxony-Anhalt head to the polls, with Ulrich Siegmund, leader of the Alternative for Germany , positioned to secure a majority to lead the eastern state government.
- Recent polling shows the AfD holds 43% support in Saxony-Anhalt, far outpacing The Christian Democratic Union at 21%, which has governed the region since 2002.
- Siegmund proposes a state-funded "deportation task force" targeting undocumented foreigners and aims to make the system "as uncomfortable as possible" for those he claims exploit it, with 4,000 people set for expulsion.
- Chancellor Friedrich Merz warned that voting for the AfD threatens Germany's open society, while Siegmund dismissed scrutiny over his team's past links to the banned neo-Nazi group Heimattreue Deutsche Jugend as "absurd."
- If the Social Democrats or Greens fail to meet the 5% parliamentary threshold, redistributed seats could push the AfD over the top, while domestic counterintelligence has categorized party elements as a threat to constitutional order.
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Saxony-Anhalt's ballot shows a renewed split between East and West Germany, with an unprecedented rise of the extreme right-wing alternative party, fuelled by the memory of marginalization, and by immigration and selective nostalgia of East Germany and Russia.
The far right is predicted to win a landslide victory in the state elections.
The road to power in Berlin is still long for Alternative for Germany, but the fact that the far-right party would achieve its goal no longer feels like an unthinkable dystopia.
The ultra-right of Alternative for Germany seeks to conquer the government of Saxony-Anhalt and approach a majority that could mark a turning point for German politics since World War II.
Ulrich Siegmund's Alternative for Germany is heading for a successful election in the state of Saxony-Anhalt.
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