{"id":52636,"date":"2026-07-11T03:53:06","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T03:53:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/52636\/"},"modified":"2026-07-11T03:53:06","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T03:53:06","slug":"germanys-afd-to-unveil-100-day-plan-ahead-of-pivotal-state-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/52636\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany&#8217;s AfD to unveil 100-day plan ahead of pivotal state election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Germany&#8217;s far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) is due to unveil an action plan on Saturday outlining its first 100 days in office if it wins power, eight weeks before a state election in Saxony-Anhalt that could give the party its first opportunity to govern a German state.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The AfD has been polling well ahead of Chancellor Friedrich Merz&#8217;s conservative Christian Democrats (CDU) in Saxony-Anhalt, while also leading surveys in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, with both eastern states due to go to the polls in September.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">If the AfD were to take charge after either election, it would mark the first time the party had governed at the state level and deal a major blow to efforts by mainstream parties to contain its rise.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The AfD has pledged to introduce compulsory work for asylum seekers and expand immigration detention if it takes power in Saxony-Anhalt after the September 6 election, although experts say the plans would face significant legal and logistical hurdles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Polls have put the AfD, led by its 35-year-old candidate for state premier, Ulrich Siegmund, comfortably ahead of the CDU in Saxony-Anhalt.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The party congress in the state capital, Magdeburg, is due to begin at 10 am (0800 GMT).<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Delegates are also expected to elect a new state executive board. State party chairman Martin Reichardt, who has led the AfD in Saxony-Anhalt since 2018 and is a member of the Bundestag, is seeking another term.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Germany&#8217;s far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) is due to unveil an action plan on Saturday outlining its first&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":52637,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[452,393,5,3849,32699,4070],"class_list":["post-52636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-germany","tag-afd","tag-friedrich-merz","tag-germany","tag-saxony-anhalt","tag-state-election","tag-ulrich-siegmund"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52636","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=52636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52636\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}