# Final sprint before Saxony-Anhalt vote: AfD holds campaign family festival in Magdeburg

https://mins.news/en/item/46439

- euronews, 2026-09-05 08:47 UTC
- Politics
- Original: http://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2026/09/05/final-sprint-before-saxony-anhalt-vote-afd-campaign-family-festival-in-magdeburg

> With the Saxony-Anhalt vote approaching, Ulrich Siegmund could lead the AfD into a state government for the first time. About 10,000 people at a campaign family festival in Magdeburg hailed the 35-year-old as a beacon of hope for his promised political shake-up.

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