Top Candidates in the Duel: AfD and CDU with the Most Speaking Time in Response to Audience Questions.
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In order not to overwhelm their audience, politicians express themselves more and more scarcely. How disastrous this is was to be seen at the MDR electoral arena. Where is the courage to cross the border?
In the electoral arena, the top candidates in Saxony-Anhalt were able to listen to their voters' fears, but they were too busy with abhorrence of the political opponent.
In the MDR election arena, the top candidates of seven parties face up to the state election in Saxony-Anhalt. Both the selection of questioners by the station and the thematic focus are strange. But the seven politicians do not make it any better either.
Germany is set to hold a landmark vote in three weeks. In the state of Saxony-Anhalt, the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) is leading the polls, with 42 percent of the vote, a 20-point lead over its rival, the Christian Democrats (CDU). This could see the AfD govern one of the 16 states for the first time.
Pia FrenkNo mobile phone? Free day care? Promotional schools or inclusion? Part of the party's electoral programmes differ widely – but in some respects they are astonishingly similar.
With only a few weeks until the state elections, what questions and expectations do the people of Saxony-Anhalt have of politicians? Last night, the leading candidates from seven parties answered viewers' questions live on MDR. Topics discussed included the firewall, municipal financing (including education), and school policy.
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