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Germany's far-right AfD suffers series of candidate deaths ahead of local vote

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Re: Germany's far-right AfD suffers series of candidate deaths ahead of local vote

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This is one of those cases where how you frame the math either makes it seem more unlikely or just how the RNG of life played out. >North Rhine-Westphalia has a population of 18 million and a reported 20,000 candidates will run for office in its 14 September local elections. Personally I'm very much not a fan of knowing no facts about the deaths and jumping to conspiracy theories. This is one of those litmus tests to…

For now, all deaths are from AfD, so wouldn't it be more fair to only consider AfD candidates?

From the article:

> The state's interior ministry has pointed out that candidates from other parties, including the Greens and Social Democrats, have also died.

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