“Remigration,” homeschooling and a smaller public broadcaster: Ten key measures in the AfD’s Saxony-Anhalt program

The Alternative for Germany’s 44% showing in Saxony-Anhalt has given the far-right party its biggest success in Germany since World War II, but it did not give the party enough seats to govern alone.

Led in the state by Ulrich Siegmund, the AfD now needs partners if it wants to take power and put its radical program into practice. The party’s regional leadership set out that program in a detailed government plan published earlier this year.

The program rests on several central ideas: national preference, tougher migration policy, a renewed pronatalist family policy, tighter control of schools and rejection of the ecological transition. Among the measures highlighted by the article is the creation of a commissioner for “remigration,” described as the core and top priority of the program.

The article presents the proposal as part of a concept supported by identity-based and radical nationalist movements. It also identifies homeschooling and a reduced public audiovisual sector among the program’s headline measures. The result is a platform that the article characterizes as a sharp break with policies pursued in the state until now.