AfD’s Potential Rule in Saxony-Anhalt Could Overhaul Asylum, Education and Foreign Stance

The Alternative for Germany, labeled a “confirmed far-right” group by the domestic intelligence agency, leads polls in Saxony-Anhalt and hopes to govern alone with Ulrich Siegmund as state premier. Its draft agenda promises deportations from day one, tighter detention and mandatory work for asylum-seekers, cuts to integration funding, and barring children without permanent residency from regular schools, alongside the creation of a “Remigration Task Force.”

The party also seeks to attract Germans living abroad back with a “return bonus,” establish a voluntary citizen patrol to supplement police, and replace multicultural curricula with a patriotic cultural policy that bans rainbow flags and criticises Bauhaus. While it calls for a rapprochement with Russia and an end to sanctions, such foreign-policy moves would be largely symbolic under federal constraints. Economists like Reint Gropp warn the anti-immigration stance could deepen the chronic shortage of qualified workers, and legal scholars such as Thomas Feltes argue the citizen patrol could undermine public safety. The legality and feasibility of many proposals remain uncertain under German and EU law.