AfD confirms its claim to government in Saxony-Anhalt before state elections

At the end of the state election campaign in Saxony-Anhalt, the AfD confirmed its desire to take over the government. The work as a prospective prime minister really begins on Monday, said the AfD co-federal leader Tino Chrupalla to the top candidate Ulrich Siegmund. “We will support you with all our might.”

At the event with hundreds of cheering and flag-waving supporters, Chrupalla continued: “This blue wave from Magdeburg will spill over to Berlin via Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. In the end, it will also lead to changes within the federal government.”

“Get the ball rolling”

Oliver Kirchner, co-parliamentary leader of the AfD in the Saxony-Anhalt state parliament, emphasized: “We will win the election here in Saxony-Anhalt and make Saxony-Anhalt a flagship project for five good years in Saxony-Anhalt and thus get the ball rolling for federal politics.”

In all surveys, the AfD, with its 35-year-old top candidate Ulrich Siegmund, was well ahead of Prime Minister Sven Schulze's CDU. The party's regional association, which the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution has classified as firmly right-wing extremist, has declared a sole government as its goal. In the last survey before the election, the AfD got 41 percent. The CDU was at 23 percent in the survey published on Thursday by the elections research group on behalf of ZDF.