Prior to the elections in Brandenburg and Saxony, the tension was great. The rights of AfD wanted to be number one. They just missed. What does this mean for the Federal States and Berlin? Sabine Kinkartz reported.
The Brandenburg Minister-President Dietmar Woidke (SPD) seems to be despite the loss of votes satisfied
“The friendly Saxons won,” says the CDU-Prime Minister Michael Kretschmer in the evening in Dresden after the state election. In Potsdam, the SPD Minister-President Dietmar Woidke says: “I am glad that the face of the state of Brandenburg remains a friendly one.”
After the state elections in the two Eastern German States, the previous heads of government of the two East German Federal States are relieved visually, even though their parties have lost much. But it seems this evening to be of secondary importance.
Kretschmer and Woidke unites, that you have referred to the AfD, the right-wing populist Alternative for Germany, in both countries in second place. The CDU in Saxony, to 32.1 percent, which is a Minus of 7.3 points. The AfD reached 27.5 per cent. In Brandenburg, the SPD ends up 26.2 percent, a decrease of 5.7 points. The AfD comes to 23.5 percent.
Relief in Berlin
Since the government can remain the leaders of the two provinces expected to be in Power, also goes by the party headquarters in Berlin, a sigh of Relief. The already shaky coalition government is now expected to be for the time being stabilized, even if the debate about the political orientation of the Union and the SPD is likely to be significantly louder.
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Shift to the right in the East
Relief is seen in Berlin, that the strategy to travel across the country, the voters, to listen and to discuss with them, as Kretschmer, and Woidke have done in the last few weeks, in every free Minute, was successful. But at the same time Scare is spreading. Approximately one in every four voters in the two Eastern German States on the right. In Saxony, in Parts of the völkisch-national-occurring party has been able to win more than 18 percentage points, in Brandenburg, more than eleven points.
Are Germany?
The Alternative for Germany reach the strength of a people’s party and is apparently anything other than a temporary phenomenon. “Nothing is over”, called out the AfD’s top candidate, Andreas Kalbitz his supporters at the election party in Werder. “Now it really begins.”
The AfD’s top candidate, Andreas Kalbitz and the party
Already employers President Ingo Kramer is concerned that the relative strength of the AfD and the “verbal Statements by leading party members were” suitable, “the good reputation, the damage in these provinces international economy”. The President of the Jewish community of Munich and upper Bavaria, Charlotte Knobloch, said it was shocking that a “so openly right-wing, anti-‘ve democratically and often enough can also cut the anti-Semitic occurring party” in two countries so strong.
This development is no longer only a concern, “but as a statement of lack of confidence in our political System overall threat”. Therefore, the CDU and the SPD are not likely to rest to have their top positions but just defended.
A lot of Protest in the East
Brandenburg’s Prime Minister Dietmar Woidke promises, the future government will do everything to ensure that AfD win back the voters. “I think that we communicate more with people, so go out, listen to, and the problems need to take.”
Protest against the AfD in Döbeln in Saxony
In fact, many people who have given to the AfD, your voice, protest voters are. According to a survey by the opinion research Institute infratest-dimap, only 39 percent of the AfD voters have elected in Saxony, the party out of Conviction. 52 per cent say that they have so voted, because they are disappointed by the other parties. In the case of all other parties, 60 percent have chosen out of Conviction and only 32, because they are disappointed by the other parties.
Coalition partners lose
From now on, we must go “back to the pressing issues, such as the structural change in the Lausitz region, the shortage of skilled workers, a good education and an adjustment of the living conditions in the city and the country,” promises Prime Minister of Saxony, Michael Kretschmer. But the CDU has to make politicians a government. This is not so easy. Previously reigned Kretschmer together with the SPD in Saxony. The has a run-in with a mere 7.7 percent, the worst result in its history. For a black-red coalition it is no longer enough.
Shocked faces in the left party in Saxony
Also in Brandenburg, the Director, was voted out the ruling coalition of the SPD and the left party. The Left is in Brandenburg and Saxony, the biggest loser. In both States, you crashes of almost 19 percent in the last election to the current level of only slightly more than ten percent of the votes. Dietmar Bartsch, leader of the Left in the Bundestag, noting that his party “will not obviously be regarded as the first address of the ostinteressen contracts and tion”. “We have a few fundamental questions for strategy in the Left and answer”, calls for Bartsch.
Coalition formation is difficult to
Both in Saxony and in Brandenburg have now found new coalitions are formed. The gaze falls on the Green, which won in two States to do so. In Brandenburg, they have reached nearly eleven percent, the best result in one East German Federal state. In Saxony, the party comes to a good eight percent. The Greens are very self-confident in the political negotiations, which are likely to be difficult. Especially in Saxony, the Green of the CDU are miles away. There are “null intersection” had said of the green Federal party’s Chairman Robert Habeck recently.