Leif-Erik Holm leads latest AfD charge in eastern Germany

A founding member of Germany’s right-wing populist AfD, Holm is hoping to take the anti-immigration party into power in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania’s state elections.

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Leif-Erik Holm helped build the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) and is now campaigning — alongside lead candidate Enrico Schult — to become the party’s first state premier in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.

A longtime critic of immigration, Holm is calling for tougher border controls, an end to sanctions on Russia and a return to nuclear power.

Though seen as a comparatively moderate AfD figure, he has faced criticism for not distancing himself from controversial party members, and for backing a colleague with ties to Germany’s neo-Nazi scene.

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