Weekend Profile: Ulrich Siegmund, the Man Who Could Bring Germany’s Populist Right to Power
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The former perfume salesman, a member of the most radical wing of the party, is the favourite of the elections on Sunday 6 September. With his commercial smile and smooth speech, he imposed himself as the new face of the far right in the region.
Ulrich Siegmund (AfD) once sold air fresheners. Now his far-right party is regarded as a favorite for the victory in the Landtag election in East Germany on Sunday.
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Ulrich Siegmund, of AfD, campaigns in Magdeburg before the next state elections in Saxony-Anhalt. Annegret Hilse/Reuters Saxony-Anhalt is a small state, of little less than 2 million inhabitants, with the lowest economic strength and the lowest life expectancy among the 16 federated states of Germany. Even so, when the state election takes place there, next Sunday (06/09), the world's eyes will be turned to the capital, Magdeburg.
How the top candidate of the AfD wants to make his small federal state a blueprint for far-right politics in Germany.
The polling stations opened Sunday morning in Saxony-Anhalt, in eastern Germany, for regional elections where the far-right AfD party is largely preferred and could come to power for the first time in its history. But who is Ulrich Siegmund, 35-year-old AfD leader and leader of social networks?
No matter where Ulrich Siegmund goes in the election campaign – the snakes are long: the AfD top candidate stages himself as a pop star politician close to the people and attracts many followers in Saxony-Anhalt.
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