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Andreas Tschurn Runs for Die Linke in QuerfurtThe 41-year-old pastor is standing as a non-member and plans to return to Leuna after the September 6 vote.
- For the September 6 ballot, Tschurn is set to contest the Querfurt constituency as an unaffiliated Die Linke candidate because he wants to directly challenge Hans-Thomas Tillschneider.
- His duties with the Evangelical Church in Central Germany are suspended during the two-month campaign, without pay, and he intends to resume his pastoral post in Leuna afterward.
- Since he has no place on the party list, Tschurn would have to win the constituency directly, an outcome considered very unlikely after Eva Feußner led Tillschneider there in 2021 with 35 percent to 28.5 percent.
- His platform includes improved rural infrastructure, public transport, medical care, school social work, free school meals, fair wages and collective-bargaining coverage.
I will fire back at him, so that he can't pretend that he is saving the Christian West.— Andreas Tschurn, a pastor and Die Linke candidate in Saxony-Anhalt, said this during a campaign event in Naumburg against AfD firebrand Hans-Thomas Tillschneider.
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