Esme Nicholson
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426 appearances
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2 series
first heard Jan 2025
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Speaking to public broadcaster said the FAFD Federal leader Alice Weidel said Chancellor Friedrich Merz's conservative Christian Democrats will never win another election.
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.
For MPR News, I'm Esme Nicholson in Berlin.
Speaking to public broadcaster said the F AFD federal leader Alice Weidel said Chancellor Friedrich Merz's conservative Christian Democrats will never win another election.
We're going to see explosive growth across all of East Germany and at the federal level too, she said.
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 MPR News, I'm Esme Nicholson in Berlin.
German domestic intelligence classifies the alternative for Deutschland or AFD as extremist in the state of Saxony Anhalt, but this is not deterring voters.
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The AFD has sought out ties with the MAGA movement in the US and advocates closer relations with Russia.
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The party has run a campaign centered around what it calls re migration, promising mass deportations from day one and the segregation of refugee children in schools.
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The candidate hoping to become Germany's first AFD state governor is thirty five year old Urich Siegmund, a former salesman with a massive TikTok following.
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His affable image contrasts starkly with the party's radical platform.
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But in a country where coalitions are the norm, the AFD may struggle to form a government unless it wins an absolute majority.
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For NPR News, I'm Esminkelson in Berlin.
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This is NPR News.
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German domestic intelligence classifies the Alternative for Deutschland or AFD as extremist in the state of Saxony Anhalt, but this is not deterring voters.
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The AFD has sought out ties with the MAGA movement in the US and advocates closer relations with Russia.
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The party has run a campaign centered around what it calls re migration, promising mass deportations from day one and the segregation of refugee children in schools.
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