>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 see how conspiracy theory prone you are I think.
Isn't the latter case usually reserved for suicides or drug overdoses, or other deaths that might be considered embarassing?
Germany of course is different so who knows.
> The state's interior ministry has pointed out that candidates from other parties, including the Greens and Social Democrats, have also died.
Politicians tend to be on the elderly side. Even more so for conservative politicians, I think, but I don't know much about AfD.
If so, perhaps it's not quite as unlikely as the economist (quoted in TFA) thinks. But that's just speculation.
the-dude•5mo ago
I thought HN might be a good place to discuss the odds of this.