AFD was the big winner of the election

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Published 2 September 2024 at 09.44

Foreign. The state elections in Saxony and Thuringia were, as expected, a defeat for the established parties in Germany — and a great success for the establishment­critical left party Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht and above all for the immigration-critical Alternative for Germany (AFD). p>

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In Thuringia, AFD gets 32.8 percent according to polling station surveys while Wagenknecht's alliance gets 15.8 percent of the vote.

In Saxony, the AFD received 30 percent – ​​more than twice the combined support of the three parties that make up the federal coalition government, i.e. the Social Democrats (SPD), the environmentalists The Greens and the neoliberal Free Democrats (FDP).

These parties each received single-digit support. The Greens in Thuringia and the FDP in both states did not even pass the 5 percent threshold to be represented in the state parliaments.

«Germany's government falters after loss in regional elections», now reads the headline of the state-run German news agency Deutsche Welle's reporting from election night.

According to analysts and the media, there is no doubt that the regional elections provide an indication of what is to come. in the next German parliamentary elections.

Four out of five German voters state that they are dissatisfied with the work of the federal government, and it has been so for a long time. The monthly survey conducted by opinion polling institute Infratest Dimap regularly shows poor results for Chancellor Olaf Scholz and his ministers.

The coalition is seen as engaged in constant internal squabbles and incapable of action. The government's quick promise of a «stricter migration policy» and panicked deportation of 28 Afghans to Afghanistan after the deadly knife attack in Solingen in western Germany did not have the positive impact the government had hoped for.

Instead, the politicians probably embarrassed themselves in front of many voters, who got the impression that the government had only now understood that this immigration from the third world was a bad idea.