Ulrich Siegmund: from CDU member to AfD lead candidate
Ulrich Siegmund is the AfD's leading figure in Saxony-Anhalt: 35, media-savvy and aiming to be minister-president. At the next state election he wants to lead his party into government.
3 articles from Euronews, France 24.
Ulrich Siegmund is the AfD's leading figure in Saxony-Anhalt: 35, media-savvy and aiming to be minister-president. At the next state election he wants to lead his party into government.
Under its 35-year-old lead candidate Ulrich Siegmund, the AfD has polled above 40% for months and has a realistic shot at winning an absolute majority if several smaller parties fail to clear Germany's 5% hurdle to enter parliament.
AfD candidate Ulrich Siegmund casts his ballot in Saxony-Anhalt, where his party is seeking a historic breakthrough in the state election.