After Thuringia, Saxony and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, the right-wing populist Alternative for Germany has now become the strongest political force in Brandenburg for the first time.
In the Sunday question, the AfD would receive 32 percent, broadcaster RBB reported on Wednesday evening, citing the so-called Brandenburg trend, which was carried out by research institute Infratest-dimap.
The SPD, which has been in power for more than thirty years, received only 20 percent – two percentage points less than in the previous Infratest-dimap survey in April. The AfD gained nine percentage points compared to the previous survey.
Höcke is said to have said “Everything for our homeland, everything for Saxony-Anhalt, everything for Germany” at the end of his speech on May 29, 2021 at an AfD election campaign event in Merseburg. He would have known that ‘Everything for Germany’ was a banned slogan of the so-called Sturmabteilung (SA) of the NDSAP.
The CDU lost five percentage points and finished in third place with 18 percent. The Greens (eight percent), Left (eight percent) and BVB/Free Voters (six percent) follow far behind. With just four percent, the FDP would miss out on access to state parliament. The next elections will take place in a year.
Thuringian party leader charged with Nazi vocabulary
Interesting detail: AfD Brandenburg is one of the most radical party state associations classified by the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution as a “suspected right-wing extremist cause”. It was only announced on Wednesday that Thuringian state party leader Björn Höcke would have to appear in court on charges of using Nazi vocabulary.
Source: Krone
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