Fear is not a platform, declared the Volt party, a small group notably present in the street campaigns in Saxony-Anhalt. Indeed, fear isn't a party program. However, in Saxony-Anhalt, for a change, it wasn't the AfD attempting to sow fear and reap votes. Confident in their candidate Ulrich Siegmund and trusting their voters' ingrained anxieties, they cheerfully proclaimed, "Everything is possible." This sounded like a new beginning, reminiscent of movements like Attac or brands like Toyota, devoid of the angry, doomsday rhetoric that propelled this party's rise.
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