In view of the election success of the AfD among younger voters in Saxony-Anhalt, the federal government’s Eastern Commissioner, Marco Wanderwitz (CDU), has called for more commitment to political education.
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- Eastern Commissioner: “Certain things” are passed on to the following generations.
“Certain things are passed on from generation to generation,” he told the editorial network in Germany on Monday. It is about “that we need and demand a basic democratic attitude”. More needs to be done in the area of political education.
“I was afraid that we would have to do more,” added Wanderwitz with a view to conveying democratic foundations. In the state elections in Saxony-Anhalt, the AfD came to 20.8 percent on Sunday, according to the preliminary official result. It was the second strongest force behind the CDU, which brought it to 37.1 percent. According to election analyzes, the AfD came first among younger voters aged up to 44 years.
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