AfD Election Winner on Denmark’s Migration Policy: “They Separate the Sheep From the Goats”
Translated from Danish and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.
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- Alternative for Germany won 43.8% of the vote in the Saxony-Anhalt state election.
- Ulrich Siegmund, a leading AfD figure, discussed Denmark’s asylum and immigration policy at the party’s election celebration.
- He praised an approach he described as separating “the sheep from the goats.”
Ulrich Siegmund may not have secured an absolute majority for Alternative for Germany. But with 43.8 percent of the vote in Sunday’s election in Saxony-Anhalt, he helped the party make history.
At the AfD’s election celebration, Berlingske asked Siegmund what he admired most about Denmark’s asylum and immigration policy. His answer was blunt: “They separate the sheep from the goats.”
The remark places Denmark’s migration policy at the centre of the AfD politician’s view of the party’s success. The interview followed an election result in which AfD emerged triumphant in the German state, despite falling short of an outright majority.
They separate the sheep from the goats.
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Originally published by Berlingske in Danish. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.
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