AfD leader Weidel hopes for turning point with Brandenburg election

AfD leader Alice Weidel is hoping that the state election in Brandenburg in one and a half weeks will also mark a national turning point. “What we need are new elections,” said Weidel at a campaign event in Forst (Lausitz). If Brandenburg’s Prime Minister Dietmar Woidke (SPD) “gets kicked out of here and the SPD loses the whole thing, then I predict that something will slip in the SPD,” said Weidel. “Then we’ll have new elections.”

The Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution is monitoring the AfD as a suspected right-wing extremist case. The Brandenburg Office for the Protection of the Constitution also classified the AfD regional association as a suspected right-wing extremist case. The AfD will be the strongest force in the state elections on September 22 in Brandenburg. It is currently ahead in polls, with 27 percent in the most recent RBB poll by Infratest dimap, ahead of the SPD with 23 percent. The election is on September 22.

In front of several hundred guests in Forst, Weidel scored points with her strong demands against the influx of refugees. “Border security is achieved through border fences, it’s as simple as that,” said Weidel. She also called for immediate peace negotiations for Ukraine and an end to arms deliveries – for which she also received a lot of applause. In the elections in Saxony and Thuringia on September 1, the AfD received over 30 percent in each case, and was the strongest force in Thuringia.