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Donogh McCabe

Final sprint before Saxony-Anhalt vote: AfD campaigns at 'family festival' in Magdeburg

Supporters queue in lines stretching dozens of metres for a photo with him: AfD lead candidate Ulrich Siegmund. The 35-year-old is standing for the party in Sunday's state election in Saxony-Anhalt.

The state's Office for the Protection of the Constitution — a department of the Germany's interior ministry — has classified the Saxony-Anhalt AfD as a confirmed far-right extremist organisation. Siegmund, whose TikTok following has made him the party's poster boy in eastern Germany, has been received like a celebrity all over the state.

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