{"id":1113,"date":"2026-05-05T14:23:21","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T11:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/?p=1113"},"modified":"2026-05-19T06:57:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T03:57:14","slug":"panic-in-germany-over-afd-rise-extreme-fearmongering-by-left-officials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/panic-in-germany-over-afd-rise-extreme-fearmongering-by-left-officials\/","title":{"rendered":"Panic in Germany over AfD Rise \u2013 Extreme Fearmongering by Left Officials"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The former Prime Minister of Saxony-Anhalt, Reiner Haseloff, threatened students that their diplomas would not be recognized everywhere following a victory by the AfD. “It must be understood what an AfD government means,” Haseloff told Der Spiegel.<\/em> It is thus possible “that diplomas and other certificates from such a federation would no longer be accepted as a given by universities elsewhere.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Even the exchange of security authorities, as well as financial transfers from the EU, the state, and the fiscal balance, would be at risk,”<\/strong><\/em> Haseloff warned potential AfD voters. The party\u2019s rhetoric increasingly resembled that of 1932, “when the NSDAP (i.e. Hitler\u2019s party) entered the parliament of the Republic of Anhalt through free elections.”<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Ramelow also warns AfD voters<\/h2>\n

Nevertheless, many “find the AfD attractive”<\/strong><\/em> because there are “real deficits.” The former prime minister, who recently handed over his position to CDU politician Sven Schulze<\/strong>, cited examples such as energy prices, bureaucracy, security, the cost to the economy, and a “problematic climate policy for our industrial structure,”<\/strong><\/em> to which, in the view of AfD supporters, the federal government “reacts too slowly or not at all.”<\/p>\n

The occasion for the statements was a discussion with the ousted Prime Minister of Thuringia and current Vice President of the Bundestag, Bodo Ramelow<\/strong> (The Left). Both politicians addressed each other informally using “du” (you) in the conversation with Der Spiegel.<\/em><\/p>\n

Ramelow also warned AfD voters not to complain after a party victory that thereafter “democratic and constitutional rules erode and an authoritarian, nationalist course sets the tone.”<\/strong><\/em> “It must be consciously decided whether we want to preserve this democracy and this freedom.”<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Document archiving in case of AfD success?<\/h2>\n

Earlier, politicians had announced drastic measures<\/strong> if the AfD wins<\/strong> an absolute majority in the upcoming state elections in Saxony-Anhalt<\/strong> and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania<\/strong>. SPD\u2019s domestic policy spokesperson in the Bundestag, Sebastian Fiedler<\/strong>, described this scenario as “a form of hostile state”<\/strong><\/em> for which “our federal system”<\/strong><\/em> is not suitable. “As a public servant, I am also bound by the Constitution. And then I would have to hand over the most sensitive information to extremists? I would rather press the delete button,”<\/strong><\/em> he said last November.<\/p>\n

The head of the Thuringian Office for the Protection of the Constitution, Stefan Kramer<\/strong>, also expressed great concern. While he said: “You cannot deny the statistical data processing of a government agency in your own government.”<\/strong><\/em> However, Haseloff<\/strong> told Focus that the case with the AfD could be different: “Can we trust an extremist with the confidential information and documents of the agency? Don\u2019t our oath and the rules for protecting secrets oblige us to refuse them?”<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Former Saxony-Anhalt leader Ha\u00dfeloff warns AfD victory could invalidate diplomas nationwide and threaten democratic norms, echoing 1930s fears, while officials consider extreme security and data measures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":1114,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[854,996,995,863,997],"nfg_topic":[134],"class_list":["post-1113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-alternative-for-germany","tag-bodo-ramelow","tag-raineer-hasseloff","tag-saxony-anhalt","tag-sebastian-fittler","nfg_topic-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1113"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1115,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1113\/revisions\/1115"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1113"},{"taxonomy":"nfg_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/nfg_topic?post=1113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}