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Lower Saxony's Prime Minister Olaf Lies expresses concern about the state elections in Saxony-Anhalt

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Lower Saxony's Prime Minister Olaf Lies expresses concern about the results of the state elections in Saxony-Anhalt, which he describes as dramatic.
He warns of the rise of right-wing extremist parties and calls for a new political style and social cohesion to defend democracy.

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The state election in Saxony-Anhalt showed a strong result for a right-wing extremist party, which Olaf Lies sees as a threat to democracy.

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Lower Saxony's Prime Minister Olaf Lies is concerned about the state elections in Saxony-Anhalt. “The results of the state elections in Saxony-Anhalt are dramatic,” said the SPD state chairman. “For a long time it seemed unthinkable that a right-wing extremist party in Germany could ever become so strong again.”

The result shows that democracy can only survive if everyone works together for it. «Cohesion is our greatest asset. By now everyone must have understood that Germany is in a turning point and extremists are advancing. We all have to oppose this, in society, politics, culture and the economy.”

Lies further demanded that federal and state politics must “establish a new, exemplary political style.”

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