He Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Socialist Party won by the minimum this Sunday at far-right party AfD, Alternative for Germany in the regional elections organized in the German state of Brandenburgnear Berlin, part of the former German Democratic Republic. It game Chancellor Olaf Scholz, who currently governs the state of Brandenburg, received 31 percent of the vote, according to ARD polls. Scholz’s socialists lost their historic hegemony in Brandenburg on Sunday due to the rise of the extreme right.
He 30% predict the formation of the extreme right, it is a new success for the party in the East of the countryafter the results of the elections in Thuringia and Saxony a month ago. The Greens of Die Grünen and the Liberals of the FDP, Scholz’s partners in the central government, obtained negative results, which reinforce the trend of the other regional elections. The Green Party falls to 5% of the voteHis presence in parliament would therefore be in doubt. The FDP, for its part, is left out with 2% of the votes.
Formerly part of communist East Germany (GDR), the state has been governed by the SPD since German reunification in 1990. And polls show the SPD is likely to maintain its coalition with the CDU and the Greens after the September elections. 22.
For the SPD, these elections are about maintaining Brandenburg as a stronghold of support. State Prime Minister Dietmar Woidke is running for his fourth term. A victory would put him ahead of his two predecessors, Manfred Stolpe and Matthias Platzeck, who each won three terms.
No other state in the former GDR has had such continuity in its political leadership: three prime ministers in 34 years, all from the same party. Nor were they imported from the West, as was the case in Saxony and Thuringia after German reunification.
Brandenburg has been governed since 2013 by SPD Prime Minister Dietmar Woidke, who has promised to resign if the AfD wins the most votes on Sunday.
If the SPD performs poorly, Chancellor Olaf Scholz could be rejected as the party’s candidate for chancellor in next year’s federal elections.
However, the SPD’s experience in Brandenburg could be very useful in the elections.
“In Brandenburg, it is increasingly clear that the elections will be similar to those in Saxony or many other states: the incumbent ministers are popular in their states and are driving their parties up in terms of votes,” says Beichelt.
As the states of Thuringia and Saxony struggle to form coalitions, Beichelt has ruled out a coalition with the AfD, with which many parties have vowed not to cooperate.
“There will probably be a coalition with Sahra Wagenknecht’s Alliance because there are only a few possible configurations in which her party would not be necessary,” he explained.
“For the German electoral or party system, it is something new to have an alliance centered on a single person. There is no program yet, only a name: Sahra Wagenknecht,” he added. “But in Europe, especially in Central and Eastern Europe, we already know these alliances that are formed around personalities and generally do not last long. If we apply this rule, we would say that within a year, or five at the latest, a party without a clear program would dissolve itself.
