[duxup]

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 see how conspiracy theory prone you are I think.

[pavel_lishin]

> the four initial deaths were either from natural causes or the cause was not being divulged for reasons of family privacy

Isn't the latter case usually reserved for suicides or drug overdoses, or other deaths that might be considered embarassing?

[duxup]

At least in my area not divulging it can be because not all family just hasn't been notified, for every situation.

Germany of course is different so who knows.

[the-dude]

Suicides are sometimes considered suspicious.

[the-dude]

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

[yorwba]

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.