AfD Chief Weidel Raises Spectre of Postal Voting Electoral Fraud in Saxony-Anhalt

In a wide-ranging interview with the Austrian alternative media AUF1, the leader of Germany’s Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, Alice Weidel, has raised the spectre of electoral fraud in the recent regional elections in Saxony-Anhalt and called for a full recount. The AfD won those elections with nearly 44% of the vote but failed to obtain the absolute majority in the regional parliament that would have ensured that the AfD’s prime minister candidate, Ulrich Siegmund, could form a government. As reported on the Daily Sceptic, a glaring discrepancy between the results of in-person voting and postal voting has led some German observers to call the overall result into question.

Now the AfD’s own chief has joined them. “I’m really not prone to conspiracy theories,” Weidel told AUF1’s Editor-in-Chief Stefan Magnet:

But the discrepancy between the in-person vote and the postal vote – somebody has to explain that to me. It’s so statistically glaring that I can’t explain it. Some districts are now being recounted. But I honestly have to say: Uli Siegmund missed the absolute majority by such a narrow margin, so this is something that needs to be looked at very carefully. I would call for having all districts recounted, because it’s just too close.

Noting that the AfD missed having an outright majority by just one seat, Magnet asked:

Are you saying that if irregularities should turn up in the vote, then it could in fact be the case that the vote in Saxony-Anhalt was stolen to, in effect, deprive the AfD of this single vote?