Overview
- A report that David Seidlitz, husband of Green candidate Susan Sziborra‑Seidlitz, belonged to a neo‑Nazi‑linked group in the 1990s has been republished by the portal Tichys Einblick and amplified by AfD supporters.
- Sziborra‑Seidlitz says she already acknowledged her husband's right‑wing past in 2022 and maintains he left that scene years ago and is now a committed democrat.
- CDU leader Friedrich Merz has reduced public campaign appearances in Sachsen‑Anhalt, with party sources citing high security costs and critics saying optics and intra‑party tensions also played a role.
- In Berlin, a Left party rally in Neukölln featured a rapper chanting slogans seen as calls for violence against Israel that Elif Eralp later condemned, while a panel at the Dar‑Assalam mosque provoked dispute after the venue’s past Verfassungsschutz monitoring led Stefan Evers to stay away and an FDP candidate was cut off after showing a photo linking the imam to a wanted suspect.
- Campaign strategists warn these controversies could shift undecided and moderate voters, raise the risk that the Greens miss the parliamentary threshold, and alter coalition options that hinge on small changes in vote shares.