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- AfD leads Saxony-Anhalt polls with over 40% support ahead of the September 6 election.
- Police raided homes of AfD candidates Simon Lansmann and Sebastian Koch on August 27, probing ties to the banned neo-Nazi Artgemeinschaft.
- The party’s platform calls for “more Bismarck, less Hitler,” daily school flag-raising and reduced National-Socialism teaching.
- Political scientist Benjamin Höhne warns an AfD government could erode liberal democracy and the rule-of-law in Saxony-Anhalt.
