The Alternative for Germany party’s success in two state elections has piled new pressure on Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s fractious government and left the country’s main opposition party facing political contortions to find a way to govern a pair of eastern regions without involving the far right party.
Bjoern Hoecke, top candidate in Thuringia of the far-right Alternative for Germany , gestures as he walks through the state parliament, in Erfurt, Germany , Sunday, Sept. 1, 2024. Participants in a demonstration against the right hold a banner reading “Fascism is not an opinion, it’s a crime!” in Hamburg, Sunday, Sept. 1, 2024.
Alternative for Germany, or AfD, became the first far-right party to win a state election in post-World War II Germany in Thuringia on Sunday under one of its hardest-right figures,. In neighboring Saxony, it finished only just behind the mainstream conservative Christian Democratic Union, which leads the national opposition. Voters punished the three parties in Scholz’s governing coalition, which took well under 15% of the vote between them.
AfD’s strength in the east has pushed other parties into unconventional coalitions as far back as 2016, but Sunday’s results took that to a new level. In Thuringia, even a previously improbable combination of the CDU, Scholz’s party and the new leftist Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance lacks a majority; to get one, the conservatives would also need help from the Left Party, which is descended from East Germany’s communist rulers and led the outgoing state government. So far, they have refused to work with it.
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