The AfD is about to leave the state parliament in Schleswig-Holstein. For the first time, the right-wing populist party could be thrown out of a state parliament.
Kiel – In the state elections in Schleswig-Holstein, the right-wing populist AfD has to worry about being able to re-enter the state parliament. According to the first forecasts, the alternative for Germany is currently at 4.6 to 4.9 percent. The party is thus below the necessary five percent hurdle – and could be voted out of a state parliament for the first time. In the last state election in 2017, the party got 5.9 percent. Is the AfD therefore facing the state parliament exit?
AfD top candidate Jörg Nobis was disappointed by his party’s poor performance in the Schleswig-Holstein state elections in 2022. “We’re still shaking,” Nobis told the German Press Agency around 7 p.m. And added: “Of course we hope that we’ll do a little more now, so that in the end it’s still enough to get over the 5 percent hurdle.” Two hours later, the AfD slipped further, Nobis had to admit: “We’ll probably be out then, that’s the way it is.”
All parties had a hard time fighting against the popularity of Prime Minister Daniel Günther (CDU), said Nobis. In addition, the topic of Corona no longer plays a role in people’s experience. In the course of the pandemic, the AfD had shown solidarity with the lateral thinker movement and called for an end to all corona measures. The AfD’s position on the Ukraine war and arms deliveries could also have cost the party votes. The AfD had rejected arms deliveries to Ukraine.
Schleswig-Holstein election 2022: AfD could be voted out of the state parliament for the first time – “We are still shaking”
AfD federal spokesman Tino Chrupalla, who, like the deputy federal spokeswoman Beatrix von Storch, followed the forecasts in the AfD’s rooms in the state building, told the dpa that the party would certainly have wished for a better result. He also acknowledged internal party causes for the poor election result: “I think that greater discipline will be needed in the next few years.” In Schleswig-Holstein, the AfD had repeatedly drawn attention to itself with internal disputes.
The poor performance of the AfD meets with joy elsewhere. On Twitter, the Greens MP Paula Piechotta quoted her own statements according to Vice Chancellor and Federal Minister of Economics Robert Habeck (Greens): “This may be the first state parliament that the AfD will be thrown out of again.” The enthusiasm about this is apparently cross-party. Martin Hagen, FDP parliamentary group leader in the Bavarian state parliament, commented: “Congratulations to Daniel Günther, the clear winner in Schleswig-Holstein. Black and yellow is possible and the AfD could fly out of a state parliament for the first time – that would be nice.” Federal Finance Minister Christian Lindner (FDP) also thought so: “The greatest success of the democratic center: It will probably be a state parliament without right-wing populists!”, tweeted the FDP politician.
And SPD member of the Bundestag Derya Türk-Nachbaur spoke up as follows: “My only consolation tonight: the #noAfD will probably be thrown out of the state parliament.” Meanwhile, your own party is in Schleswig-Holstein, in the words of the SPD Secretary General Kevin Kühnert, “got under the wheels”. According to the forecasts of ZDF and ARD, the SPD only got 15.5 to 16 percent. It is the historically worst result for the party in Schleswig-Holstein. (aka with dpa)
According to a study, unvaccinated people and AfD voters tend to believe in conspiracy theories about the Ukraine war.
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