Prior to the state elections in Brandenburg, Prime Minister and SPD's top candidate Dietmar Woidke commented on the SPIEGEL revelations about the leading AfD candidate Andreas Kalbitz. "He was always a right-wing extremist and is deep in the brown swamp," said Woidke at the end of the election campaign of the Brandenburg SPD in Oranienburg.
The country did not deserve to be stamped with extremism, he said. Previously, Kalbitz had confirmed a SPIEGEL report on his participation in a far-right demonstration in Athens in 2007. At that time, Kalbitz had lodged in an Athens hotel together with 13 German right-wing extremists.
In a report in the SPIEGEL, there is talk of "14 German neo-Nazis", who had traveled for a march of the Greek "Patriotic Alliance", a far-right alliance for the party "Golden Dawn". Also leaders of the NPD and the party junior are listed.
The embassy's report also states that the group unleashed a police operation for hanging a swastika flag on the balcony of their hotel. Read the whole story here.
Before the elections this Sunday, the SPD and the AfD are almost equal. In the ZDF political barometer of the research group elections, the Social Democrats are 22 percent, the AfD 21.