Alternative for Germany party leader Bjoern Hoecke celebrates regional election win. The party was on track to become the first far-right party to win a regional election in Germany since WWII but was almost certain to be excluded from power.
Far-right AfD stormed to victory with 32.8% of the vote in the state of Thuringia. AfD came close second in Saxony with radical left BSW scoring huge gainsParties on either side of Germany's political spectrum scored major victories in regional elections last night as voters in the east of the country express their distaste with the government of the floundering Chancellor Olaf Scholz .
In neighbouring Saxony, the AfD took home just over 30% of the vote, coming in a close second to the CDU with 31.9%, while the BSW secured 11.8% of votes. They are also highly critical of the EU, with the AfD going as far as to call for German sovereignty from the bloc it has described as a 'failed project'.
Germany's 'Buendnis Sahra Wagenknecht' party leader Sahra Wagenknecht, the party's top candidate Katja Wolf and Steffen Schuetz walk on the day of Thuringia state elections, in Erfurt, Germany, September 1, 2024 The memory of the Nazis, who also scored an initial state election success in Thuringia, makes working with far-right elements highly taboo.
BSW leader Wagenknecht has already said her party 'cannot work together' with Hoecke and has long ruled out a coalition with the AfD. In the wake of yesterday's regional elections, Chancellor Scholz will be holding onto hope that the AfD will remain unable to find willing partners in government Mario Voigt , top candidate and regional leader of Germany's conservative Christian Democratic Union in the eastern federal state of Thuringia shows double thumbs up during the Germany's conservative Christian Democratic Union party's election night at the Cultural centre 'Zentralheize' in Erfurt, eastern Germany
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