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Six candidates for political office in Germany, all members of a relatively conservative party, the AfD, have dropped dead within a two-week time frame, just as elections are about to be held.
It is the New York Post that has reported the candidates all were part of Alternative for Deutschland, which is considered more right-wing than other parties in the country.
The BBC said officials were claiming no foul play was involved in the deaths of four candidates and two reserves: Ralph Lange, 66, Wolfgang Klinger, 71, Stefan Berendes, 59, and Wolfgang Seitz, 59, and the two reserves.
They all were to appear on ballots in North Rhine-Westphalia in a matter of just days, on September 14.
Authorities have not commented on the causes for the deaths, except to say two appeared to be from natural causes.
The BBC noted an economist pointed out the number of candidate deaths in such a timespan was "statistically impossible."
According to a report by the Daily Caller, officials were reporting that candidates from other parties, Social Democrats and Greens, also died during that same time space.
The AfD party had made huge gains during the 2022 elections, surging from 5.4% to 16.8% in the polls, but it still remained less than an election superpower.
The unexpected deaths have required multiple reprints of election ballots and have led to the cancellation of some mail-in ballots, the BBC noted.
It was only three months ago that Germany's spy agency temporarily classified the AfD as an "extremist" group, before backtracking.
