Thank you, Mr. Bremmer. Excellent summary of the election in Germany.
Indeed worrisome that the AfD has DOUBLED its vote percentage since 2021, and, like you said, has outright won in several of the former DDR states, where they garnered between 38-40% of the votes. This is extremely scary for the future elections in four years.
Meanwhile, the SPD had the lowest voter % in its history, and the CDU/Union got lower voter % than the lowest Merkel had ever gotten in her 16 years. Die Linke (the left) was able to shed itself of Sara Wagenknecht (whose BSW failed to get into the parliament), and thus were able to increase their voter margins, but still under 10%
The reason I am detailing all this is to EMPHASIZE how dramatic and seismic the AfD win is
Thank you, Mr. Bremmer. Excellent summary of the election in Germany.
Indeed worrisome that the AfD has DOUBLED its vote percentage since 2021, and, like you said, has outright won in several of the former DDR states, where they garnered between 38-40% of the votes. This is extremely scary for the future elections in four years.
Meanwhile, the SPD had the lowest voter % in its history, and the CDU/Union got lower voter % than the lowest Merkel had ever gotten in her 16 years. Die Linke (the left) was able to shed itself of Sara Wagenknecht (whose BSW failed to get into the parliament), and thus were able to increase their voter margins, but still under 10%
The reason I am detailing all this is to EMPHASIZE how dramatic and seismic the AfD win is