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The Guardian - UK
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Kate Connolly in Berlin

AfD launches manifesto as campaign season for German election begins

AfD leaders Alice Weidel and Tino Chrupalla on a stage at a party conference
Alice Weidel was nominated the AfD’s candidate for chancellor at the party’s federal conference in Riesa, Germany on Saturday. Her co-chair, Tino Chrupalla, is seen with her. Photograph: Martin Divíšek/EPA

Germany’s far-right AfD party has signed off on its manifesto before next month’s critical election, proposing a series of deeply controversial policies on everything from migration to education as the campaign for a new government in Europe’s powerhouse formally kicked off.

The party, founded in 2013, endorsed the far-right concept of “re-migration” into its programme, threatening the mass deportation of migrants if it came to power.

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