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AfD Tops CDU, Wins Saxony-Anhalt, Calls for Deportations

5/22/2026

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Summary

Story summary

AfD’s national support rose to a record 29%, overtaking the CDU.
Ulrich Siegmund is projected to win Saxony-Anhalt’s September 6 election with 42% support.
The Saxony-Anhalt Verfassungsschutz calls the AfD’s state branch a far-right extremist group, a label the party rejects.
Siegmund plans to detain 5,000 deportation candidates, set up a task force, end EU sanctions on Russia and restore Russian language courses and exchanges.

History

Historical Context

The August 1992 Rostock-Lichtenhagen riots, Germany’s first post-reunification xenophobic outbreak, saw a mob of several thousand attack an asylum-seeker shelter, injuring 204 police officers. A similar wave erupted in September 1991 in Hoyerswerda, where neo-Nazis assaulted Vietnamese hawkers. These early-1990s riots established a pattern of right-wing violence that resurfaces in today’s far-right politics.

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Story summary

AfD’s national support rose to a record 29%, overtaking the CDU.
Ulrich Siegmund is projected to win Saxony-Anhalt’s September 6 election with 42% support.
The Saxony-Anhalt Verfassungsschutz calls the AfD’s state branch a far-right extremist group, a label the party rejects.
Siegmund plans to detain 5,000 deportation candidates, set up a task force, end EU sanctions on Russia and restore Russian language courses and exchanges.

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