{"id":3796,"date":"2026-04-11T21:57:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T21:57:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/3796\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T21:57:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T21:57:20","slug":"german-far-right-afd-issues-radical-manifesto-ahead-of-key-state-poll-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/3796\/","title":{"rendered":"German far-right AfD issues radical manifesto ahead of key state poll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) issued a radical manifesto for Saxony-Anhalt on Saturday as parties ramp up campaigning for the closely watched state election in September.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The AfD adopted the manifesto at a state party conference in Magdeburg.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">On the issue of migration, the manifesto calls hardline policies through a &#8220;deportation and remigration offensive.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">However, many migration issues in Germany cannot be regulated at the level of individual states.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">That limitation is reflected in the programme\u2019s language stating the party would seek to push such measures through the Bundesrat, the upper house of parliament, in Berlin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The AfD also seeks to terminate state broadcasting agreements. Under the proposal, public funding would be conditional on what the party describes as a &#8220;credible commitment to the democratic order and a patriotic mindset.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">AfD state deputy leader Hans-Thomas Tillschneider said during the presentation of the programme that children do not need anti-racism training, but self-defence courses.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Several hundred people joined protests against the AfD state party conference across Magdeburg, a police spokeswoman told dpa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The far-right party is expected to post big gains in the election in Saxony-Anhalt, including the possibility of winning an outright majority of seats in the state parliament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) issued a radical manifesto for Saxony-Anhalt on Saturday as parties ramp up&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3797,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[452,3866,5,3848,3849,3867],"class_list":{"0":"post-3796","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-afd","9":"tag-fellow-party-members","10":"tag-germany","11":"tag-party-conference","12":"tag-saxony-anhalt","13":"tag-state-parliament"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3796\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}