Divided Bavaria shortly before the election

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The state election in Bavaria on Sunday, agitates the people in decades. And you could change the policy thoroughly, with effects up to Berlin. Rebecca perennials reported Maier.

In an Inn in the vicinity of the lower Bavarian town of Deggendorf is a crucifix. Including AfD supporters around the Anti-Merkel-stickers-covered donation box. “The AfD is the punishment of God for the CSU,” says Katrin Ebner-Steiner, the lower-Bavarian AfD top candidate in the state election, and as a result, garners thunderous applause in the hall. Deggendorf is a AfD-high castle. In the General election in 2017, the right-wing picked up the most here are 18 per cent, in the Bavarian average is 12.4 percent.

In contrast to other AfD-party events, no one protested in Deggendorf against the party – what is mentioned is the AfD Federal Chairman Alice ryegrass on this day. The impact of the state elections would be immense, and calls her listeners. The harder the lesson for the CSU and the stronger the presence of the AfD would be in the Bavarian Landtag, the faster the chancellorship of Angela Merkel will find your end.

Costume and Dirndl: The AfD-Federal Chairman of the ryegrass (l.) to the low-Bavarian top candidate Ebner-Steiner

Like many others in the Inn also Harald Fischer of Deutsche Welle says that he had previously selected for CSU, but disappointed since, 2015, from deep, because the CSU have supported as part of the Berlin coalition government of Merkel’s refugee policy. Therefore, the CSU, have a complicity: “you are part of the problem, not the solution. And you must now bear the consequences.”

The CSU in fear

Not only the AfD sees the state election as a vote on Merkel’s policy. Also, so far, in Bavaria alone, the ruling CSU makes the Berlin policy for their poor poll ratings, although it is involved in the Berlin coalition government. The CSU in Bavaria is a party to the records. For decades, they had absolute majority and could govern on its own, and since more than 60 years, the Minister-President of Bavaria. But now, shortly before the state election, your poll numbers are in part under 35 percent.

Shortly after the AfD, the CSU holds a campaign event in Deggendorf. Older CSU supporters, some in Lederhosen or dirndls, pass the time until the Arrival of the Prime Minister, Markus Söder with free beer and pretzels. For many of them, the Tradition seems to be everything. On the question of why you choose the CSU, to say the most, you would hold chosen already always CSU. However, even among your most loyal followers, the discontent is palpable. “The politicians always think of the Federal policy,” complains a 82jähriger CSU-voters compared to the DW. The migration debate is crowding out other important issues such as education and pensions.

Markus Söder is on the CSU-based quite popular, but he has pulled in the few months since he was Bavarian Minister-President is, much displeasure. That happened especially since he moved over in the migration policy to the right, and when he had, in all the Bavarian authorities, the crosses would have to be suspended. As he announced to want Bayern to the air and space location number one in Germany, raised in surprise to mocking a number of eyebrows.

Prime Minister Söder received a lot of criticism with his cross-adoption for public buildings

In comparison to previous Speeches to moderate themselves Söder, in the meantime, the issue of Migration, also at the rally in Deggendorf. Open to the world you wanted to be, but without losing the own culture, modern, but also Bavarian. The fully konstrastiert strikingly both with the aggressive rhetoric of the right-wing populists, as well as with its own CSU the past few months.

Turn to the left in the big cities

For many young voters in the big cities, the new sounds come in too late, and you don’t take him. In Munich, there has been in the election campaign, many protests against the CSU. Especially on the day of German unity, thousands went to Munich on the road and criticized on their banners AfD and CSU alike.

“Migration is the mother of my husband,” it said on the sign the 32 year Simone Wiedemann. In order to handle the set of CSU-chief and the interior Minister, Horst Seehofer, had said, Migration is the mother of all political problems in Germany. Wiedemann, whose husband escaped from Iran and since then lives in Germany, told Deutsche Welle, you suffer a private life in the growing dislike of immigrants and refugees. Your message to Seehofer: “I want him to see that Migration is an opportunity and not a threat.”

For Simone Wiedemann Migration is anything other than “the mother of all political problems”

Other demonstrators took part, especially Seehofer, the questions in the summer with his hard stance in the refugee, the Berlin coalition had led to the brink of collapse: “I think that Seehofer is the most dangerous politicians of his time,” says the 33-year-old Munich-based SPD-voters, Benjamin Glauss. He does not think that Seehofer for even more dangerous as right-wing populists, because his statements had the voters more weight. “He is of an established party, and the people can still be strong by his words, to influence.”

Many of those who are inclined rather to the Left, hope on the Green. You are at the Moment in the polls with up to 18 percent on the second place. The Green pick on the choice really much, it would be for Bavaria, a Sensation. “It is important to show that there are still people who are against xenophobia and right-wing rhetoric,” says a 20-year-old woman in the German wave. It was the Green and left parties in General, and adds: “I want something New.”