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CDU Disinformation Campaign! Minister-President Sven Schulze (CDU) and Former Minister-President Reiner Haseloff (CDU) Spread FalsehoodsJust a few months before the state election in Saxony-Anhalt, the political tone is becoming significantly harsher. In education policy as well, the CDU is now relying on drastic warnings about a possible AfD-led government. 
Former Minister-President Reiner Haseloff (CDU) publicly questioned whether a high school diploma from Saxony-Anhalt would still be recognized nationwide under an AfD-led state government. His successor, Sven Schulze (CDU), went even further and warned of an alleged “death of schools.” But how credible are these statements really?The AfD Saxony-Anhalt responded with sharp criticism. In a Facebook post dated May 8, 2026, the party accused the CDU of making “blatantly false claims” and conducting a deliberate fear campaign. In particular, deputy state chairman Hans-Thomas Tillschneider directly attacked the CDU: according to him, it was not the AfD but the CDU itself that had pushed through numerous school closures during more than ten years in government. In fact, the CDU was responsible for the Ministry of Education for years and therefore also for the state's school development planning.Haseloff’s claim that an AfD-governed Saxony-Anhalt could result in high school diplomas from the state no longer being recognized elsewhere appears above all to be a political scare scenario. In Germany, school qualifications are generally coordinated through the Standing Conference of the Ministers of Education and Cultural Affairs. An automatic revocation of recognition for a state diploma would be a massive legal and political exception. Even critics of the AfD therefore described Haseloff’s statements as highly exaggerated. Sven Schulze’s warning about widespread school closures is also based less on concrete decisions than on a political interpretation of the AfD’s election platform. The CDU is trying to create the impression that an AfD government would destabilize the education system. Yet this is precisely where the AfD presents its counter-model. The AfD explicitly calls for the de-ideologization of schools. According to the party, curricula and teaching in recent years have increasingly been shaped by political and social ideologies, while traditional educational content, merit-based principles, and neutrality have been pushed into the background. The party therefore calls for a stronger focus on core competencies such as mathematics, German, natural sciences, and history, as well as political neutrality in teaching. In addition, the AfD advocates preserving small schools in rural areas. Lower minimum student numbers, more flexible school networks, and regional solutions are intended to prevent more villages and small towns from losing their schools. In doing so, the party deliberately positions itself against the centralization policies of recent years. In an interview with Bürgerstimme in September 2025, Ulrich Siegmund explained this in detail. The AfD wants to enable learning associations and micro-schools to be formed in order, among other things, to avoid long journeys to school. Children who are, for example, bullied at school should not first fall into a spiral of school refusal and should be able to receive education through alternative paths. The interview with Ulrich Siegmund: Many people remember that numerous school closures were already decided under CDU-led state governments. Particularly in structurally weak regions, this resulted in long commutes to school, declining attractiveness of rural areas, and growing frustration among parents and municipalities. That the very same party is now warning about school closures under a possible AfD government therefore appears more than contradictory. Saxony-Anhalt Has the Highest School Dropout RateIn the 2024/25 school year, around 9.3% (1,761 students) in Saxony-Anhalt left general education schools without a diploma. This places the state among the worst performers nationwide and, according to the Ministry of Education, gives it the highest proportion of school dropouts in Germany. This does not suggest that the education policies of recent years and decades under CDU-SPD governments have been even remotely successful.In addition, there is a general crisis of confidence in the established parties. Many voters accuse the CDU of breaking election promises and arbitrarily changing political positions. Against this background, dramatic warnings about the AfD appear less like objective criticism and more like an attempt to generate fear of political change. The current debate shows one thing above all: the CDU is increasingly relying on alarmist rhetoric. Dr. Hans-Thomas Tillschneider, deputy chairman of AfD Saxony-Anhalt, is quoted as saying: The CDU is the party of lies! The real core conflict therefore runs deeper. It is no longer just about school policy, but about the fundamental question of what education in Germany should look like in the future: centralized or regionalized, shaped by sociopolitical agendas or more strongly focused on traditional educational goals. Show / expand the post by “AfD Saxony-Anhalt” from May 8, 2026:After former Minister-President Reiner Haseloff (CDU) falsely claimed that after an AfD takeover of government, a #highschool diploma earned in Saxony-Anhalt would no longer be recognized nationwide, Minister-President Sven Schulze (CDU) is now doubling down and claiming, just as falsely, that an AfD government would threaten school closures. Regarding this, Dr. Hans-Thomas Tillschneider, deputy chairman of #AfD Saxony-Anhalt and education policy spokesman, explains: “The CDU has led the Ministry of Education for more than 10 years and is responsible for all the #schoolclosures pushed through during that time, while the AfD fought against them with all its strength. In the state parliament, we repeatedly tried to amend the school law and the regulation on school development planning so that no school would have to close anymore; the #CDU always voted against it. Furthermore, as in the case of Siersleben, we fought locally against school closures. When the school-closing party CDU now warns that an AfD government would lead to school closures, this absurdity and audacity can hardly be surpassed. Merz broke his election promises after the election. In its desperation before the election, the CDU Saxony-Anhalt is spreading blatant falsehoods about the AfD. With the AfD, not a single #school would be closed anymore. Unlike the CDU, we do not want to create giant schools and continue to let rural areas decline. Demand 25 in the chapter ‘School Education’ of our government program states: ‘Preserve schools!’ We explain exactly how we also want to preserve very small schools. Furthermore, our family policy aims to ensure that more children are born again. The CDU’s claim has no basis whatsoever. Whether Merz, Haseloff, or Schulze: the CDU is the party of lies!”
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