The far-right AfD has won the German election

Germany’s far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party has won Thuringia’s regional parliament election. Reuters wrote this on Sunday, September 1.

According to exit polls, the AfD will win 33.5% of the vote in the state of Thuringia, far more than the 24.5% of the conservative Christian Democratic Union party. In the neighboring state of Saxony, the Conservatives led with 32%, just half a percentage point ahead of the AfD.

The agency said the AfD is close to becoming the first far-right party to win regional elections in Germany since World War II. However, most likely, he will be removed from power by competing parties.

Sarah Wagenknecht’s left-wing populist alliance (BSW), which like the AfD demands tighter immigration controls and wants to end military aid to Ukraine, came third in both states, although it was behind a previous poll.

It was noted that the results look disappointing for the coalition of Chancellor Olaf Scholz, although his Social Democrats appear to have passed the 5% threshold to remain in the parliaments of both states.

However, the AfD is unlikely to form a government as other parties have ruled out joining a coalition with it, calling it anti-democratic and extremist.

Let’s recall that in May the court rejected the Alternative for Germany party’s appeal against its classification as a far-right extremist organization.

And in January of this year, hundreds of thousands of protesters took to the streets of various cities after reports of a meeting attended by representatives of the Alternative for Germany, where they discussed a “remigration ” scheme – that is, the expulsion of immigrants from the country. The party suffered its biggest weekly drop in popularity in almost two years.