Update: Germany’s Populist AfD Party Wins First Country Commissioner in East Germany – So now the Federal Government Wants to Ban Them
Robert Sesselmann schreibt in #Sonneberg @AfD-Partei-Geschichte #nurnochAfD #Stolzmonat pic.twitter.com/xd1eYnFAXA
— Jochen der Rochen (@Jochen_d_Rochen) June 26, 2023
The German right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) party won their first major local majority Sunday in East Germany. As the government’s disastrous far-left policies drive more and more voters to the partiotic Alternative, Interior Minister Nancy Faeser now wants to ban the second-most popular party in Germany.
Despite all other parties allying against him, lawyer Robert Sesselmann won the County Commissioner’s chair in Sonneberg in East German Thuringia with 52.8% of the vote in regional by-elections. “People want to send a signal with their vote,