Ulrich Siegmund: AfD's Lead Candidate in Saxony-Anhalt
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The regional election in Saxony-Anhalt, in the former East Germany, is particularly expected. The AfD is given widely winning according to the first estimates. Its leader, Ulrich Siegmund, favoring a rapprochement with Russia, has also played on the nostalgia of the ex-RDA. But in a country where the far right has not gained power since the Second World War, its cleavage and pro-Russian positions are worrying some voters, who have come to demons…
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The German far-right AfD's landslide victory in the state election in Saxony-Anhalt is also leaving a big mark nationally. "It's a huge thing symbolically," says political science professor Ann-Kristin Kölln to TT.
Ulrich Siegmund's supporters gather at his rallies to take photos with him. The candidate for the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party is leading in the polls for the regional elections in Saxony-Anhalt with a strong agenda against undocumented immigrants, distrust of public media, and a shift in the historical narrative, which, in his view, focuses "too much on German guilt" following the Third Reich.
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