In Saxony-Anhalt, a German state already hollowed by decades of population loss, the far-right AfD stands poised to claim its first state government — a prospect that forces the nation to reckon with how much a single regional election can reshape the boundaries of the permissible. The party's program promises mass deportations, citizen patrols, and a rewriting of historical memory, though legal scholars note that federal law and international obligation would constrain much of what it envisions. What cannot be constrained so easily is the signal such a government would send: to skilled worker
AfD's Saxony-Anhalt Blueprint: Deportations, Vigilante Groups, Russia Ties
Proposed policies would directly impact asylum-seekers and immigrants through detention, forced labor, school exclusion, and potential deportations.