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15k Block Erfurt Highways as AfD Leads Polls

7/4/2026

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About 15,000 demonstrators blocked highways in Erfurt before the AfD conference.
The AfD conference in Erfurt featured Alice Weidel and Tino Chrupalla, expected re-election.
Polls put the AfD at 29 % nationally and 41 % in Saxony-Anhalt, ahead of the CDU/CSU at 22 %.
Opponents warn that an AfD-run state could replace civil servants and raise security risks, while the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution says AfD statements reflect an ethnicity-based concept the party calls extremist.

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About 15,000 demonstrators blocked highways in Erfurt before the AfD conference.
The AfD conference in Erfurt featured Alice Weidel and Tino Chrupalla, expected re-election.
Polls put the AfD at 29 % nationally and 41 % in Saxony-Anhalt, ahead of the CDU/CSU at 22 %.
Opponents warn that an AfD-run state could replace civil servants and raise security risks, while the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution says AfD statements reflect an ethnicity-based concept the party calls extremist.