Esme Nicholson
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first heard Jan 2025
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For MPR News, I'm Esminkelsen in Berlin.
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The AFD, which ran a campaign centred on the policy of remigration or mass deportation of immigrants, more than double its share of the vote in the small eastern state of Saxony Anhalt compared to five years ago.
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Chancellor Friedrich Merz's centre-right Christian Democrats more than halved their share of the vote.
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The CDU candidate in the state, Sven Schulze, congratulated the AFD and said, some say this is a dark day for Saxony-Anhalt.
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I call it democracy.
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The man hoping
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But falling just short of a majority, the AFD will need support to form a government.
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Most parties refuse to work with a party that German domestic intelligence considers anti-constitutional.
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For MPR News, I'm Esmin Nicholson in Berlin.
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Right at the top of the agenda is what the AFD calls its remigration policy, which promises mass deportations.
The AFD also wants to segregate refugees and disabled children.
in schools and revamp the curriculum to focus on a more positive teaching of Germany's history.
It is also promising to dismantle the region's public broadcaster, and all this and more is seen as the AFD's blueprint for the rest of Germany.
Speaking to public broadcasters at the FAFD, federal leader Alice Weidel said Chancellor Friedrich Merz's conservative Christian Democrats will never win another election.
We're seeing explosive growth here, she said, referring to the state of Saxony-Anhalt.
We're going to see explosive growth across all of East Germany and at the federal level too, she said.
The AFD candidate responsible for that growth is Ulrich Siegmund, a former salesman with a radical platform promising mass deportations, the segregation of refugee children in schools and closer relations with Russia and the MAGA movement in the US.
While it's not yet clear whether the AFD can rule outright, Siegmund declared, we have written history and thanked Friedrich Merz for being a very good campaigner for the AFD.
For NPR News, I'm Esme Nicholson in Berlin.
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