Final sprint before Saxony-Anhalt vote: AfD campaigns at 'family festival' in Magdeburg

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Ulrich Sigmund, the AFD's top candidate in Saxony-Anhalt, presents himself as a man of the
people. At the so-called family festival in Magdeburg, he poses for hundreds of photos with
fans. The young AFD poster boy is treated like a celebrity by his supporters all over the state.
With an outright win, the AFD could gain state-level power for the first time in Germany's post-war era.
Eva von Angern is also running as a lead candidate. She has represented Die Linke
in the state parliament since 2002 and says the tone there has changed significantly since then.
In the latest election polls, the AFD stands at 41 percent,
far ahead of the CDU at 23 percent, with the left party in third place at 11.5 percent.
Other parties, CDU, SPD, Grüne, Linke, were booed and whistled out.
The people here are convinced that first Saxony-Anhalt and then the whole country can change.
But their party could fail at the wall of fire,
because the other parties do not want to govern together with the AFD.
Laura Fleischmann from Magdeburg for euronews.
