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AfD Leader Links Arms Plant to Deportation Drive
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Ulrich Siegmund, the AfD’s likely leader in Saxony-Anhalt, floated allowing a weapons producer to operate in the state to fund his party’s planned deportation campaigns, linking arms production to internal security and national defence. The plan involves a potential Elbit Systems facility in Sangerhausen, though officials say it would not produce complete weapons and legal/political obstacles remain amid opposition from other parties.
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Maya Lindstrom
Tying weapons production directly to deportation funding risks turning state policy into a profit-driven security scheme.
AfD Leads Saxony-Anhalt Race Ahead September Election
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— Aug 24, 2026
Germany’s far-right AfD, led by Ulrich Siegmund, is surging in Saxony-Anhalt polls ahead of the September 6 election, potentially making the party the first AfD-led state government since World War II. Critics warn that Siegmund’s friendly public persona masks a radical platform with extremist ties and hardline stances on migrants, LGBTQ rights, and climate policy, raising concerns about democracy and Germany’s reckoning with its Nazi past.
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