The leadership of Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s party has sought to squash questions about his candidacy in next year’s national election after narrowly beating the far right in a regional vote. Scholz’s center-left Social Democrats beat the far-right Alternative for Germany in the eastern state of Brandenburg Sunday.
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Scholz’s center-left Social Democrats beat the far-right Alternative for Germany in the eastern state of Brandenburg Sunday thanks to the popularity of Gov. Dietmar Woidke, who had trailed in polls and said that he would quit unless his party finished first. Woidke kept Scholz and the unpopular national government out of his campaign, while the two other parties in Scholz’s coalition in Berlin dropped to extremely poor results.
The Social Democrats’ co-leader, Lars Klingbeil, took comfort from the outcome for the national election due next September, although the party’s performances in the“I as party leader want to win the national parliamentary election — that is 12 months away and we will fight together,” Klingbeil said at a news conference.
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