AfD Seeks Saxony-Anhalt Victory as Launchpad for National Power
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In Saxony-Anhalt, the AfD aims to win governing power and use it as a national launchpad, outlining a 100-day program to restructure the civil service with party loyalists, create a deportation task force, and blend radical policies with broadly palatable ones to win support; the plan faces legal hurdles and pushback from the CDU and other opponents, but national leadership has prepared strategies to defend and extend its agenda if it takes power.
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