Ahead of Saxony-Anhalt’s September 6 election, Protestant and Catholic leaders are publicly challenging the AfD’s ethnonationalist platform, from church banners to bishops’ statements. Their intervention matters because the party leads polls and its state branch is classified as right-wing extremist by domestic intelligence.
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Churches in Saxony-Anhalt confront AfD’s nationalist agenda

DEUTSCHE WELLE

Ahead of Saxony-Anhalt’s September 6 election, Protestant and Catholic leaders are publicly challenging the AfD’s ethnonationalist platform, from church banners to bishops’ statements. Their intervention matters because the party leads polls and its state branch is classified as right-wing extremist by domestic intelligence.

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