The far-right Alternative for Germany won a state election for the first time Sunday in the country's east, and was set to finish at least a very close second in a second vote, projections showed.
The far-right Alternative for Germany won a state election for the first time Sunday in the country's east, and was set to finish at least a very close second in a second vote, projections showed.Bjorn Hecke after the publication of the first forecasts for the state election in Saxony and Thuringia, in Erfurt, Germany, on Sunday.
"An openly right-wing extremist party has become the strongest force in a state parliament for the first time since 1949, and that causes many people very deep concern and fear," said Omid Nouripour, a leader of the Greens, one of the national governing parties. The CDU's national general secretary, Carsten Linnemann, said his party will stick to its longstanding refusal to work with the far right."Voters in both states knew that we wouldn't form a coalition with AfD, and it will stay that way — we are very, very clear on this," he said.Weidel denounced that as"pure ignorance" and said that"voters want AfD to participate in a government.
Scholz's center-left Social Democrats were at least on course to remain in the two state legislatures with single-digit support, but the environmentalist Greens appeared set to lose their seats in Thuringia. The two parties were the junior coalition partners in both outgoing state governments. The third party in the national government, the pro-business Free Democrats, also was set to lose its seats in Thuringia. It had no representation in Saxony.
Sahra Wagenknecht, long one of its best-known figures, left last year to form her own party, which is now outperforming the Left. Wagenknecht celebrated what she called an unprecedented success for a new party, underlined its refusal to work with AfD's Höcke and said she hopes it can form"a good government" with the CDU.The CDU has long refused to work with the Left Party, descended from East Germany's ruling communists.
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