Security: Are Saxony-Anhalt police officers turning their backs on the state? Above-average number of transfer requests after AfD victory
In Saxony-Anhalt, the first interior minister from the ranks of the AfD could take office. Some officials want to leave the federal state because of this. But this is not that easy.
A recent report claimed that 72 police officers in Berlin requested a transfer after the Left party won an election, three times the number from the previous year. Some German states, including Baden-Württemberg and Brandenburg, actively sought to recruit Berlin police officers. Meanwhile, in Saxony-Anhalt, the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party won 43.8% of the vote in early September and is set to elect a leader, Ulrich Siegmund, as Minister-President in mid-December.
If successful, Siegmund would likely become Germany's first AfD Interior Minister, overseeing the state police.
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