{"id":314770,"date":"2025-09-05T05:00:34","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T05:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=314770"},"modified":"2025-09-06T05:49:38","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T05:49:38","slug":"afd-candidate-deaths-rise-to-seven-ahead-of-nrw-vote-police-deny-crime-involved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=314770","title":{"rendered":"AfD Candidate Deaths Rise to Seven Ahead of NRW Vote, Police Deny Crime Involved"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hungarian Conservative \u2013 Sept 4, 2025<\/strong><\/h1>\n

The mystery surrounding local elections in Germany\u2019s North Rhine\u2013Westphalia province deepens as two more politicians from the right-wing anti-immigration Alternative f\u00fcr Deutschland (AfD) were reported dead unexpectedly, just days before the vote.<\/p>\n

As Hungarian Conservative<\/em> reported earlier this week, the sudden death of Ralph Lange in Blomberg marked the fourth such case<\/a> in little more than ten days. Now, media reports suggest that two additional reserve candidates have also died.<\/p>\n

Moreover, German outlet Die Welt<\/em> wrote that in addition to these six cases, Hans-Joachim Kind, a direct AfD candidate in Kremenholl, a district in southern Remscheid, also died shortly before the election. The 80-year-old, however, passed away from natural causes after a long illness. In that sense, his case differs from the others, as his death was not unexpected. Kind\u2019s passing brings the total number of deceased AfD candidates to seven.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2018There are \u201cno indications\u201d of murder or foul play\u2019<\/p>\n

Kay Gottschalk, deputy state chairman of the AfD in North Rhine\u2013Westphalia, rejected speculation about the deaths on Tuesday in an interview with WELT TV. \u2018We will of course pursue the cases with the necessary sensitivity and care,\u2019 Gottschalk said, adding that there are \u2018no indications\u2019 of murder or foul play.<\/p>\n

Authorities likewise stated that there is no evidence linking the cases, nor any signs of third-party involvement. According to Die Welt<\/em>, candidates from other parties have also died after their nominations, with six such cases recorded outside the AfD.<\/p>\n

As Hungarian Conservative<\/em> previously reported, the elections will be held on 14 September 2025. The sudden deaths of several candidates have put heavy time pressure on local administrations to reprint polling cards and postal ballot documents.<\/p>\n

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This is what happens in a Western democracy when a party emerges that challenges the accepted status quo. Candidates start dying. At the last count SEVEN AFD CANDIDATES IN SUCCESSION had died in the runup to elections, and police say there\u2019s nothing untoward happening <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-314770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Current_Affairs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=314770"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":314791,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314770\/revisions\/314791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=314770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=314770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=314770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}