Protests against AfD election victory in Saxony-Anhalt in several German cities

After the AfD's election victory in Saxony-Anhalt, according to police reports, around 5,000 people protested against the party at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin. As a police spokesman said, the demonstration went “without any problems”. Among the participants were climate and political activist Luisa Neubauer and the top candidates of the Greens and the Left for the election to the House of Representatives in Berlin on September 20th. The organizers spoke of around 14,000 participants.

The AfD election result is a "shame that makes you angry and stunned," said the head of the Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora Memorials Foundation, Jens-Christian Wagner, at the rally. For the first time since the liberation from National Socialism, a right-wing extremist government could come to power. This election result should not simply be accepted in silence, he continued.

Schwesig: “Stop the AfD’s power fantasies together”

In Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, people protested against the party in several places. "Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania is not Saxony-Anhalt," said Prime Minister Manuela Schwesig (SPD) at a demonstration in Schwerin. »We will stop the AfD's power fantasies together. The AfD doesn’t get our home.” A new state parliament will be elected in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania on September 20th.

Hundreds of demonstrators also gathered in Potsdam to protest against the party. Protests were also planned for the evening in Münster, Göttingen, Dresden, Aachen, Bamberg, Darmstadt and in Halberstadt in Saxony-Anhalt.

Around 200 people at the Steintor in Halle

In Halle an der Saale, around 200 people gathered at the Steintor. A protest camp organized by civil society and left-wing initiatives will take place there from Sunday to Wednesday. A ZEIT reporter on site reported that mainly young people and parents with small children came.

According to a ZEIT reporter, around 50 people gathered in Salzwedel in the late afternoon under the motto "We'll be there together even after the election." an organizer said on stage. that “everything is somehow different” now and she has to let it sink in first. But she thinks it's important to come together on this day.