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The Cheers Echo Beyond Saxony

From Morgunblaðið · () Icelandic

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

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Newswire From a news agency Outcome reported
  • AfD supporters celebrated after exit polls showed the party winning 44% of the vote in Saxony-Anhalt.
  • The celebrations took place at the party’s election-night event in Magdeburg.
  • AfD state parliament member Daniel Wald compared the moment to the shared joy he remembered from the fall of the Berlin Wall.

The cheers were loud at the AfD’s election-night event in Magdeburg when exit polls showed the German right-wing party winning 44% of the vote in Saxony-Anhalt.

Supporters celebrated enthusiastically on Sunday evening as they took in the scale of the party’s success in the state. Daniel Wald, a 44-year-old AfD member of the state parliament, said the moment brought back memories of the joy surrounding the fall of the Berlin Wall.

“Exactly this feeling, this emotion I experienced in 1989, with tears in my eyes and everyone around me, my family, celebrating, exactly this feeling came back when we stood there and looked down at the result,” Wald told AFP.

Exactly this feeling, this emotion I experienced in 1989, with tears in my eyes and everyone around me, my family, celebrating, exactly this feeling came back when we stood there and looked down at the result.

· Daniel WaldThe AfD state parliament member compared the party’s election-night celebration with memories of the fall of the Berlin Wall.
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Originally published by Morgunblaðið in Icelandic. 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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