AfD unveils 100-day plan for Saxony-Anhalt ahead of 6 September state election, targeting public broadcasting cuts and asylum rules

Campaign launch in Magdeburg

Nine weeks before Saxony-Anhalt's state election, the AfD presented a 100-day programme for a potential single-party government. At a party conference in Magdeburg's Hyparschale on Saturday, roughly 250 members gathered before a stage flanked by eight German flags and two Saxony-Anhalt flags. State leader Martin Reichardt called for a "thunderous applause" for Spitzenkandidat Ulrich Siegmund and described the gathering as the "party conference before our government takeover."

Our historic task is to prevent this majority of Germany-haters and power-hungry Union philistines.

The AfD is polling above 40 percent and could win an absolute majority of seats. If no single party secures a majority, a CDU-led minority government relying on occasional cooperation with the Left party is one alternative scenario cited in the coverage.

The ten-point programme

Siegmund said the party had outlined "concrete solutions" across roughly 150 pages, condensed into a leaflet of ten immediate actions. He told delegates, "All of Germany is looking positively at this election," and accused other parties of having no positions of their own.

People want political change. All the other parties are only preoccupied with us, they have no positions of their own.

The ten points include terminating the state broadcasting treaties, creating more deportation detention places, establishing a new working group of state and municipal authorities to accelerate deportations, and introducing a blanket work obligation for asylum seekers. The plan also proposes cutting funding for party-affiliated foundations and democracy promotion programmes, while launching a driving licence subsidy aimed especially at apprentices.

Schools, symbols and ministries

Three of the ten measures focus on education and symbols. The AfD would create separate classes for children of asylum seekers and deploy security guards at problem schools. Rainbow flags would be banned from school buildings; instead, the German federal flag would fly every school day. The existing state campaign slogan "#moderndenken" would be replaced with "#deutschdenken." On government structure, Siegmund said he would eliminate one or two ministries. A Corona inquiry committee would also be established in the state parliament to review the pandemic response.

Reichardt's attack on the CDU

Reichardt opened the conference with a sharp assault on Minister President Sven Schulze. He accused the CDU leader of lying when he rules out cooperation with the Left party, arguing Schulze "has no chance whatsoever of any majority without the Left." Reichardt called Schulze's government a "pseudo-conservative regime, dangling on the strings of left-wing extremists." He described the CDU members as "power-hungry Union philistines" and framed preventing a continued CDU-SPD-FDP coalition as a historic task.

Election context

The state election takes place on 6 September 2026. The current coalition of CDU, SPD and FDP could lose its majority. The AfD, classified by the state's domestic intelligence agency as confirmed right-wing extremist, has around 3,500 members in Saxony-Anhalt. Siegmund, 35, leads the party into the vote with the declared aim of governing alone. Siegmund also attacked the media, speaking of a "detached media landscape" and noting with amusement that the investigative outlet Correctiv was present at the party conference for the first time.