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Germany’s Far Right Seeks Defectors to Govern Saxony-Anhalt

From ABC Color · () Spanish

Translated from Spanish and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.

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  • The far-right Alternative for Germany won 43.8% in Saxony-Anhalt, falling three seats short of an absolute majority.
  • Regional leader Ulrich Siegmund says he will seek support from all parliamentary groups but does not want to govern as a minority.
  • A third-round election could allow Siegmund to win with a simple majority if the Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance abstains, though he rejected that route as unstable.

The Alternative for Germany is looking beyond party lines for the three lawmakers it needs to govern Saxony-Anhalt. After winning 43.8% of the vote in the eastern German state, AfD regional leader Ulrich Siegmund said he would speak with every elected party and every deputy.

“I do not close the door to anyone, and I do not draw firewalls. We will talk to all parliamentary groups and all deputies,” Siegmund said at a news conference in Berlin with AfD co-leaders Alice Weidel and Tino Chrupalla.

I do not close the door to anyone, and I do not draw firewalls. We will talk to all parliamentary groups and all deputies.

· Ulrich SiegmundThe AfD’s Saxony-Anhalt leader described his effort to find parliamentary support.

He appealed to individual lawmakers who might be willing to break with their parties, saying they would be welcome if they kept the AfD’s core positions intact. “If individual actors are prepared to jump over their own shadows and consider the future of Saxony-Anhalt more important than their careers, they are welcome,” he said.

If individual actors are prepared to jump over their own shadows and consider the future of Saxony-Anhalt more important than their careers, they are welcome.

· Ulrich SiegmundSiegmund appealed to lawmakers from other parties to support an AfD-led government.

The AfD needs an absolute majority of lawmakers in the first or second round of voting, and currently lacks three seats. In a third round, Siegmund could be elected with a simple majority if the Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance abstains. He rejected that possibility, arguing that an election secured through abstention would not create a stable majority.

The Christian Democratic Union won 17.2%, followed by the Social Democrats with 9.3%, the Greens with 8.9%, the Left with 8.6% and the Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance with 5.3%. Siegmund said an AfD-led government would give the state a competitive advantage, while he, Weidel and Chrupalla sought to ease concerns about the party’s economic and migration policies. They said their objections concerned irregular migration, not foreigners generally.

Naturally, I will stand for election as soon as we can organize a stable majority. An election thanks to an abstention does not produce a stable majority.

· Ulrich SiegmundHe rejected relying on abstentions in a possible third-round vote.
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Originally published by ABC Color in Spanish. 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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