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Germany’s AfD plans to replace hundreds of civil servants after election win in battleground state

The right-wing Alternative for Germany party (AfD) has announced it will replace up to 200 civil servants in the state of Saxony-Anhalt – if it comes into power following the September elections there. As Ulrich Siegmund, the party’s leader in Saxony-Anhalt, told newspaper MZ yesterday, there are plans to fill a three-figure number of posts in the administration with new personnel.