The success of the AfD in the Landtag elections in Saxony and Brandenburg, is a blow for the coalition government in Berlin, to comment on international Newspapers. But it had not been for the disaster.
The election results were “a shock … but not the earthquake that had all feared,” writes the Italian newspaper Corriere della sera. Similarly, La Repubblica, a rating of the electoral success of the AfD in the Landtag elections in Saxony and Brandenburg: “The nightmare that the right-wing AfD is the strongest party in two of the länder of the former German democratic Republic and the government of Merkel shaken, was averted.” The Italian newspaper, but notes that “the extreme right is on a disturbing rise”: “In Saxony and Brandenburg, around a quarter of the voters made their cross next to the party, for fear, nationalism and xenophobia are the main instrument in the campaign was. And the party begins the, […] see themselves as the losers of the Berlin wall.”
The French daily newspaper Le Monde referred to the growth of the AfD as a “powerful breakthrough” and stressed that the party had achieved never before, “a high income”. De Telegraaf from the Netherlands writes even of a “double slap in the face for the unstable coalition government” in Germany. The Volkskrant, a Dutch daily newspaper, speaks of a “black day” for the CDU and the SPD, The AfD had become in the East, “a people’s party.”
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The AfD was, “to be an integral part of German policy”, the Belgian newspaper De Standaard noted that “The question is, what does this mean for the future of the largest member state of the EU. While France, Britain and Italy have made political landslides, remained in Germany has been a model for stability. (…) Political turmoil are probably undesirable. But, equally, it is undesirable to maintain the Status quo against the will of the voters is.”
“The anti-immigration Alternative for Germany has reached on Sunday in two important state elections, strong gains, and your support is greatly expanded, the established parties, however, are not overthrown”, comments the British Guardian. However, the “sharp shift to the right” in Saxony and Brandenburg, was “a blow to Angela Merkel’s coalition of Christian Democrats and social Democrats”. Despite this heavy setback, in East Germany the CDU and SPD were able to bypass “the great disaster”, writes the Danish newspaper Politiken.
From the point of view of the Polish Gazeta Wyborcza, the “populist attack had been averted”, despite a “record profit” of the AfD in Saxony and Brandenburg. The parties in government can still afford resistance “against the rise of Ultra-Right” in East Germany, emphasizing the Spanish newspaper El Pais. In the United States, the Washington Post comes to the conclusion that the “huge profits”, the AfD is not enough to overtake the “established parties”.
mvb / the (AFP, dpa)