The state Parliament elections in Saxony and Brandenburg, have shifted the balance of forces. The AfD cheers, the CDU and the SPD cool her blue eyes, the Left and the FDP are still in shock. How is it now?
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Parties discuss election results
The choice of winners a bit earlier. So you have to call them, even if they are not to reign, not in Brandenburg and also not in Saxony. Shortly after 9 o’clock in the morning, the leadership of the right-wing populists of the “Alternative for Germany” (AfD) is sitting in the Foyer of the Federal press conference in Berlin. From all sides they are surrounded by photographers and cameras. In Brandenburg, they have doubled their share of votes compared to the last election, in Saxony tripled. 23.5 per cent in Brandenburg, a whopping 27.5 percent in Saxony.
Gauland: “We are moving in the direction of the Lega!”
“We will establish ourselves as the people’s party,” says party leader Alexander Gauland (in the center of the image) to the beginning of the press conference. He talks about the extreme-right Lega in Italy, which, until recently, the Minister of the interior, there: “In this direction we are moving.” Andreas Kalbitz (left) , the top candidate in Brandenburg, about the Connections in right-wing circles last open, it was reported, and the asylum seekers as “Syrian deserters”, which has been termed, is very bourgeois and tame as a kitten: he Also speaks of the AfD as the people’s party, and adds: “The road leads now through hard work as an opposition party, the democracy!”
People’s parties to get away with a black eye
The one with the AfD as the new people’s party did not want to comment on CDU Bundestag Faction leader Ralph brinkhaus directly. Prior to the deliberations of the CDU on Monday, he said in Berlin: “We have to look at ourselves. It now makes no sense to look to the left or to the right.” Otherwise, the CDU and the SPD are glad to be with some of the blue eyes came, in spite of severe losses. The analyses of the pollsters say that The two Prime Ministers, Michael Kretschmer (CDU) in Saxony, and Dietmar Woidke (SPD) in Brandenburg, have benefited from it, that the fear of many voters before an AfD-election victory, voices from the Camps of the Left, the Greens, has resulted in the FDP.
The right-wing populists will remain in the Opposition, but the results in both countries, with AfD results of well over 20 percent went to the other parties in the limbs. CDU-Chef Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer don’t try to claim the narrow victory in Saxony for the Federal party. She praises instead, the CDU-Prime Minister Michael Kretschmer, who was in the last few weeks, much of the country, and at the end just as the winner by the goal went in: “He has managed to make it clear that there are, in addition to the right-wing is a friendly, open, a forward-looking face of Saxony’s most.” Early in the afternoon, then the party boss calls for the Offensive: “yesterday is a Signal for the CDU, the advance which began the renewal and what is more, with all the consequence.” Kramp-Karrenbauer want to explain to the people, the party concepts for climate protection and digitisation better, and she puts on a new communication concept to explain without a closer look at it..
Criticism from the CDU to Kramp-Karrenbauer
Kramp-Karrenbauer know that you are as the party boss heavy weeks. The first group of critics. For example, the CDU-Prime Minister of Schleswig-Holstein, Daniel Günther, is actually a supporter of Kramp said-Karrenbauer, the CDU had to content put clearer points. In the newspaper “the world,” added Günther on Monday: “we are able to bind to a part of the people, especially in the new länder to us.” The response was “obviously, not perfect.” The AfD seems to have worked: a total of 226.000 votes, the right wing got most such as in Saxony from the camp of non-voters, representing the largest group by far in the win.
Not a crisis of the Grand coalition
In the criticism: CDU-Boss Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer
For weeks it had been speculated prior to these two elections, if the Berlin government could shatter the Alliance between the CDU, CSU and SPD with Chancellor Angela Merkel at the top after these two regional elections. However, it is felt on the Monday, nothing, not the SPD, not in the case of the CDU and the CSU. In the foreground of the shock is that the people in the East are turning away in large numbers from the established parties and right-wing populists to choose. The Commissioner of the SPD-Chairwoman Manuela Schwesig, Minister-President of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, summarizes it this way: “What we need in the East of Germany, all of the Prime Minister, regardless of party: that the Federal government listens more to us. Because we know where the Shoe pinches.” SPD-Secretary-General Lars Klingbeil is combative, in spite of bitter 7.7 percent for its party in Saxony: “We take the fight to the voters of the AfD. We will not be satisfied with the fact that so many people have chosen this party.” So it is more in the case of the CDU and the SPD, also in the Federal government, for the time being at least. Self-AfD leader Alexander Gauland does not believe that the government breaks the Alliance now. He told DW: “I believe that the Grand coalition will now hold because of the election results, it now for both major parties would be difficult Bundestag elections through.”
Green: “75 percent have chosen not AfD!”
The Greens, in nationwide polls for months, far above the 20 percent mark, were obtained for the first time in two elections, votes, but not as strong as hoped.
Brantner: “75 percent have not chosen the AfD!”
The member of Parliament Franziska Brantner tried Monday in the DW first of all, the result is correct einzuordnern: “75 percent have not chosen the AfD.” The other parties are now obliged to show the AfD-voters “that democracy can work for you and will work.” Otherwise, the Greens were “pleased that we have won our votes and for the first Time in the East direct mandates won.”
Hangover prevailed, meanwhile, on Monday, when the liberals of the FDP and the Left. The losses to the Left of each of the ten percentage points Bundestag parliamentary leader Dietmar Bartsch, described as a “Disaster”. The party should put a stop to your entire strategy into question. And the FDP is not represented in the two national days.
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