Well, this is just the wildest string of coincidences you ever saw, isn't it?
Yep, that's right: The rightwing AfD party is losing so many candidates before the election that the media can't even keep up!!
Seven rightwing German candidates for the Alternative for Deutschland party have died in a thirteen day period.
From Newsweek:
Four candidates running for local office in the northwest German state, local authorities reported last month. The deaths all took place within 13 days of each other, according to the European Conservative.
This week, AfD state deputy leader Kay Gottschalk said two reserve candidates also died, in an interview with Politico's Berlin Playbook Podcast.
Investigations are ongoing, but police said there is no evidence of foul play, with most of the deaths involving pre-existing health conditions and natural causes, a North Rhine-Westphalia AfD spokesperson told Politico, according to the German daily newspaper Die Welt's translation of the podcast episode.
Yep. No foul play. Just all these people running for office in the verboten party all happened to die at the same time. A coincidence of coincidences.
Candidates Ralph Lange, 66, Wolfgang Klinger, 71, Stefan Berendes, 59, and Wolfgang Seitz, 59, are the first four who died within two weeks of each other.
The City of Rheinberg announced Seitz's death on August 21, before the City of Schwerte said on August 26 that Klinger had died 'unexpectedly' on August 19. The next day, the City of Blomberg announced "the unfortunate death" of Lange on August 27 and, on August 28, the City of Bad Lippspringe said Berendes 'died unexpectedly.'
Died suddenly and unexpectedly. 😬
The liberal parties that control Germany have tried to stop the surge in popularity for the AfD by outright banning the party (for the sake of democracy, of course!).
Anyway...
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