{"id":1181029,"date":"2026-09-01T18:15:20","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T18:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1181029\/"},"modified":"2026-09-01T18:15:20","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T18:15:20","slug":"why-germanys-far-right-is-on-verge-of-biggest-win-since-before-wwii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1181029\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Germany&#8217;s far right is on verge of biggest win since before WWII"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"aiir-c-news-extra__timestamp\">\n                    Tuesday, 1 September 2026 19:00\n                <\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aiir-c-news-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/skynews-thisiswhy-afd_7337490.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"aiir-c-news-article__abstract\">\n            \ud83d\udc49Listen to This Is Why on your podcast app\ud83d\udc48\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"first\"><strong>The leader of the Alternative for Deutschland (AfD) party in Saxony-Anhalt has been called &#8220;the most dangerous man in Germany&#8221;. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ulrich Siegmund, a 35-year-old former perfume salesman, is on course to be elected as leader of the state of Saxony-Anhalt.<\/p>\n<p>His victory would be the biggest win for a far-right party since before the Second World War.<\/p>\n<p>So who is he and what does the AfD stand for? And what would a state election win for the party mean for Germany and for Europe?<\/p>\n<p>Niall is joined by Sky&#8217;s Europe&#8217;s correspondent Alistair Bunkall, who tracked down Siegmund at an AfD rally in Saxony-Anhalt.<\/p>\n<p>Have you got a question for Niall? Email the show &#8211; why@sky.uk<\/p>\n<p>\n                    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/skynews_2018-small.png\" alt=\"Sky News\" style=\"width:85px;height:20px;vertical-align:middle;\"\/>\n                <\/p>\n<p>\n                (c) Sky News 2026: <a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/why-germanys-far-right-is-on-the-verge-of-its-biggest-win-since-ww2-13579822\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Why Germany&#8217;s far right is on verge of biggest win since before WWII<\/a>\n            <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tuesday, 1 September 2026 19:00 \ud83d\udc49Listen to This Is Why on your podcast app\ud83d\udc48 The leader of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1181030,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5310],"tags":[19000,19007,19024,19003,19010,19026,2000,299,920,19001,19023,1824,19002,19009,19025,16785,19004,19011,19027,9440,19015,19017,19014,19016,19018,19012,19013,18998,19008,19005,19021,8423,18999,19006,19022,19019,19020],"class_list":["post-1181029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-germany","tag-bridlington","tag-bridlington-news","tag-bridlington-weather","tag-driffield","tag-driffield-news","tag-driffield-weather","tag-eu","tag-europe","tag-events","tag-filey","tag-filey-weather","tag-germany","tag-hornsea","tag-hornsea-news","tag-hornsea-weather","tag-local-radio","tag-pickering","tag-pickering-news","tag-pickering-weather","tag-radio","tag-radio-bridlington","tag-radio-driffield","tag-radio-filey","tag-radio-hornsea","tag-radio-pickering","tag-radio-scarborough","tag-radio-whitby","tag-scarborough","tag-scarborough-evening-news","tag-scarborough-news","tag-scarborough-weather","tag-whats-on","tag-whitby","tag-whitby-news","tag-whitby-weather","tag-yorkshire-coast","tag-yorkshire-coast-radio"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1181029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1181029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1181029\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1181030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1181029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1181029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1181029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}