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Ulrich Siegmund

October 5, 2026

Germany's Sachsen-Anhalt shows how policy complexity is outrunning democracy

Philipp Noetges Philipp Noetges argues that Sachsen-Anhalt's record vote for the far-right AfD party is less about German exceptionalism than a widening gap between what policy now requires and what any electorate can realistically evaluate: a gap populism exploits faster than evidence-based politics can close On 6 September 2026, Sachsen-Anhalt handed Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) its strongest […] Read more

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