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SPD Minister Has Filed an AfD Membership Application! – Armin Willingmann, Welcome to Reality!On July 31, 2026, Armin Willingmann posted a clip on Facebook that sounds as if he had copied it straight from the AfD Saxony-Anhalt’s government program pages. 
2000 euros for every newborn is “not an election giveaway, it is a necessity”. In 2025, there were supposedly “still 12,300 births” (officially, according to the State Statistical Office, there were 11,978), the figures have been declining for years, “we are becoming fewer and fewer”, and the state wants to “contribute a little” to the “not insignificant costs” of raising children. Bravo, Minister! How exciting that you have finally noticed this now, just a few weeks before the state election on September 6, 2026 – and not many years ago, when you had already been sitting in the state government for a long time and the downward trend had already become steep. The AfD text, almost word for word The AfD Saxony-Anhalt government program prominently states: “As a sign of support for aspiring parents, we will introduce a baby welcome payment of 2,000 euros for the first two children and 4,000 euros for every additional child.” Eligibility requirements: German citizenship of at least one parent and both parents having had their primary residence in Saxony-Anhalt for at least one year. Half of the payment after birth, the other half on the child’s third birthday, linked to preventive medical examinations (without evaluating vaccination status). Exactly what Willingmann is now selling as an SPD “necessity” – except that the AfD formulated this idea earlier and with a clear demographic policy objective. Other AfD state associations and the federal program call for comparable or even higher bonuses and childcare salaries. Welcome to the club, Mr. Willingmann. The AfD membership application appears to have been submitted. Willingmann is following just days later the example of CDU Minister-President Sven Schulze, who has also increasingly aligned his rhetoric with that of the AfD, as if he wanted to become a member of the AfD. And what about the SPD program?In the publicly available summaries of the SPD election program “With Heart, Conviction and Confidence” (MDR, Tagesschau, among others), one finds interest-free loans for families willing to stay, the abolition of real estate transfer tax for the first property, home ownership subsidies, family-friendly working hours, and free daycare. A blanket 2,000-euro baby payment for every newborn? It cannot be found in the official program points on demographics and family support. It appears more in current SPD Facebook reels and Willingmann statements – meaning exactly now, shortly before the election, when the five-percent threshold is feared and the AfD is polling at 40 percent plus.Why did the SPD not implement this years ago, when it was part of the government and birth rates had already been in free fall for a long time? The answer seems obvious: Because government policy considers it too expensive, because other priorities were preferred, and because demographic realism was long regarded as something to be left to the “populists.” Now that the figures can no longer be denied, the party is adopting the same “AfD populism” it otherwise likes to denounce – and is promising: Vote for us one more time, then you’ll get the 2,000 euros. Maybe. Perhaps. Or maybe not, once it becomes clear that it remains expensive. The figures nobody could have overlookedThe development of births in Saxony-Anhalt since reunification is a textbook example of demographic catastrophe:
The decline since 2022/2023From 2022 onward, the nationwide and eastern German decline in births accelerated dramatically. The Federal Institute for Population Research (BiB) and studies on Germany and Sweden identify a temporal connection between the sudden drop at the beginning of 2022 and the peak of the COVID vaccination campaign nine months earlier: Many couples are said to have initially postponed their desire to have children, partly because of uncertainties regarding vaccination recommendations for pregnant women. The decline continued afterwards – official explanations cite multiple crises (the war in Ukraine, inflation, uncertainty). Critics go further and attribute the continuing decline more strongly to the vaccines themselves. Other factors (the economy, housing costs, general sentiment, the emigration of young women) undoubtedly also play a role. One thing is certain: The trend was impossible to miss – and state politics watched for years.How exciting, then, that Armin Willingmann has discovered this now! Shortly before the election, when the SPD is fighting for political survival, the minister suddenly discovers the “necessity” and reaches deep into the AfD’s policy toolbox. For decades, the problem was merely administered, the numbers were allowed to decline, and accusations of populism were handed out to everyone who warned of demographic desertification. Now, in the final stretch of the election campaign, necessity suddenly becomes an election promise: Vote SPD, then you’ll get 2,000 euros per baby. Maybe. Perhaps. Subject to financing and the state budget. So probably not after all. This is not a change in policy. This is panic-driven opportunism in its purest form. And yes: It sounds very much like an application for AfD membership. Welcome, Minister. At least you have finally read the numbers. Author: AI-Translation - АИИ | |
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