“Germans, Thuringians, do you really want to get used to these conditions? Free yourselves; finally put an end to the wrong path of forced multiculturalization!” Björn Höcke, the AfD’s lead candidate in Thüringen, wrote on X. Thüringen heads to the polls on Sept. 1, along with neighboring Saxony.
Höcke, who is leading election surveys in Thüringen, urged the people to “vote for change” and send “the responsible cartel parties into the desert,” adding: “There can be no more like this!”
The AfD is attacking not only the ruling coalition of Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Social Democrats, the Greens and the Free Democrats, but also the two main opposition parties, the center-right CDU/CSU and the far-left Sahra Wagenknecht alliance, which are the AfD’s main opponents in both state elections.
In Saxony, where the AfD is neck-and-neck with the CDU, the party wrote on X that the CDU would “do NOTHING to change the current situation” and pursue “a policy of open borders with even more migration” at the EU level.
“Change is only possible with us,” argued AfD Bundestag lawmaker Nicole Höchst.
The far-right volleys of criticism, amid a lack of information on the assailant, recalled the recent riots in the U.K. that were fanned by false claims that a suspected attacker was a newly arrived immigrant. The stabbing of three girls in Southport in late July sparked days of violence across Britain with far-right groups accused of inflaming violent disorder.