Expectations showed that German opposition governors, Freders Mirz, were on their way to a faded victory in national elections on Sunday, while the alternative to Germany doubled its support, which is the strongest offer for an extremist right -wing party since World War II.
Counselor Olaf Schools confessed to defeating socialist Democrats in the left in the center after what he called “the result of the bitter elections.”
ARD and ZDF expectations showed his party in third place with the worst post -war in national parliamentary elections.
It was not immediately clear how easy it was to assemble Mirz a coalition government.
The elections were held seven months ago, which was originally planned after the collapse of the November Chols Alliance in November, three years after the increasingly young man. There was widespread discontent, not enthusiasm for any of the candidates.
Expectations, based on the exit and partial count surveys, have been supported by the Union’s Merz bloc of less than 29 % and an alternative to Germany, or AFD, about 20 % – twice its results from 2021.
They have put support for social democrats in Schulz by more than 16 %, much less than in the last elections. The environmental vegetables, their remaining partners in the outgoing government, were 12-13 %.
Of three smaller parties, the left left-left party-with a certainty of winning seats in Parliament by up to 9 % of the votes. Two other parties, the free democrats supporting business and alliances, Sahra Wagenknecht, hovering around the support threshold of the 5 % needed to win the seats.
Whether Mirz will need one partner or two partners to form an alliance based on the number of parties that enter Parliament.
“I am familiar with responsibility,” Mirz said. “I am also aware of the size of the task that is now in front of us. I am dealing with it with the utmost respect, and I know it will not be easy.”
“The world is not waiting for us, and does not wait for the coalition talks and the long -awaited negotiations.” “We must now be able to act quickly again.”
“We have become the second fastest strength,” AFD candidate told the counselor, Alice Widel.
She said that her party is “open to coalition negotiations” with the Mirz party, and that “otherwise, there is no change in politics in Germany.” But Mirz has repeatedly excluded work with AFD, as well as the other prevailing parties.
The Secretary -General of Democratic Democrats, Matthias Mirch, suggested that the defeat was not a surprise after three years of the non -popular government. “These elections have not been lost in the past eight weeks,” he said.
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The elections dominated the concerns about the recession, which lasted for years of the largest economy in Europe and with pressure to reduce immigration. This happened against the background of the increasing uncertainty about the future of the Ukraine coalition and the European Alliance with the United States.
Germany is the most intensive country in the European Union 27 countries and a leading member of NATO. He was the second largest arms supplier in Ukraine, and after the United States it would be primarily in shaping the continent’s response to the challenges of the coming years, including the Trump administration’s foreign policy.
More than 59 million people in the country from 84 million people were eligible to elect 630 members of the lower parliament of Parliament, Bundestag, who will run their seats under the glass dome of the Berlin Richestag building in Berlin.
Why is AFD support?
AFD entered for the first time the National Parliament in Germany eight years ago against the background of discontent with the arrival of large numbers of immigrants in mid -2010, and the curbing of immigration remains the subject of its signature.
But the party has proven that it is an escape in harnessing discontent with other issues as well: avoiding fossil fuels, restrictions during the Covid-19 pandemic and supported Ukraine after the full invasion of Russia nearly three years ago.
The party was founded in 2013 and initially focused on opposing the rescue operations of the troubled countries in the debt crisis in the euro area-measures described by Angela Merkel, then adviser Angela Merkel as “without an alternative.”
Over the years, AFD has become more radical and changing leaders over and over again. Merkel’s decision in 2015 was to allow large numbers of immigrants who had been shipped as a political force. In the 2017 national elections, it won 12.6 % of the votes, to obtain seats in the German parliament for the first time.
After returning to Parliament in 2021 with the support of 10.3 %, AFD picked up the power as the Olaf Schulles advisor at the left center at the center through a series of crises and finally collapsed.
Germany saw a wave of protests a year ago that a report arose that right -wing extremists met to discuss the deportation of millions of migrants, including some German citizenship, and that AFD members were present.
But this has not caused long -term damage to AFD. She ranked second in the European Parliament elections in June, and in September, the best well -known figure in its most difficult wing, Bjinne Haki, ranked the first right -right victory in the state elections in Germany after World War II.
AFD went to Sunday elections with renewed confidence and a radical language, and opinion polls were placed in second place with about 20 % support. Widel, her first candidate for the consultant, embraced the political “full” term, as the party calls for widespread deportations of people who have no legal entitlement in Germany.
AFD calls for immediate sanctions against Russia and opposes arms delivery operations to Ukraine. It wants Germany to re -provide a national currency and to become the European Union “Association for European Countries” more flexible, although it does not explicitly call for leaving the 27 countries.
The Local Intelligence Agency in Germany has a party under a note of the right -wing extremism. AFD branches were set in three oriental countries on the “right -wing extremist” groups. AFD strongly objects to these assessments and rejects any connection with the Nazi past. Höcke has resumed condemning to use the Nazi logo on a political event.
AFD has support throughout Germany and is represented in all the legislative councils of the 16th state with the exception of the 16th, but the party is stronger in the former Communist East and less prosperous.
“The other parties do not deal with these clarity, with this intensity, with this radicalism and this emotion,” said Wolfgang Schroeder, a professor of political science at the Berlin Center for Social Sciences. “Moreover, it is an internet party and from the beginning I used the emotional power of the Internet to communicate – much better than all other German parties together.”
This helped to perform strongly among young voters in the recent regional elections. The party depicts itself as an anti -Foundation force in the time of low confidence in politicians.
Schroeder described it as “something like a aircraft carrier for resentment and anger.”
The AFD rise coincided with the extremist right parties in many other European countries, including the Austria Freedom Party and the National Rally in France, which has many common reasons. Urban described this month and indicates “the future of Germany.”
However, it is not part of the group of patriots in Europe in the European Parliament after some tensions before the European Union elections last year. AFD was removed from one of the group’s ancestors after its main candidate at the time, Maximilian Krah, it is not all Nazi SS men “criminals necessarily”.
Musk, the artistic billionaire and US President Donald Trump’s ally, announced that “AFD only can save Germany.” He had a direct conversation on X with Weidel and appeared directly by Link Video in the AFD campaign march.
In this gathering, Weidel pledged to “make Germany great again” in the echo of the Trump logo, “Make America great again.”
Nine days before the elections, Vans met Widel after a speech at the Munich Security Conference in which he gave the lecture of European leaders on democracy and freedom of expression and announced that “there is no room for protection walls.” It is often referred to the main German parties to work with AFD as the “Wall of the Protection”.
