The AfD performed strongly in the Brandenburg election. After a discussion on the topic with AfD leader Weidel, there was an explosive counterattack on ARD.
Potsdam – At the Brandenburg election 2024 According to the first results, the AfD is not the strongest force. The SPD, led by top candidate Dietmar Woidke, is ahead of the right-wing party in the projections, albeit only just. Brandenburg was prevented from getting a “big, brown stamp,” the SPD incumbent said on ZDF afterwards. Forming a coalition in Brandenburg could still be difficult.
And the AfD? It did not achieve its goal of becoming the strongest force. But the party still sees its performance, which shows it clearly in second place in the results of the 2024 Brandenburg election, as positive. AfD top candidate Hans-Christoph Berndt celebrated himself as an “election winner” on ZDF live, even though he was not the “election winner”. But the result also gives the party hope for another reason: “We are the party that has the strongest support among young people. In that respect, the future is on our side,” Berndt explained afterwards.
Interview after Brandenburg election: “The East is blue,” Weidel celebrates on ARD
But it was not without criticism of the competition. The AfD politician added that their own strength had also ensured that the Greens and the Left were eliminated from the state parliament. In addition, the AfD had now caused “the parties that like to call themselves democratic to have their masks ripped off their faces.” The CDU insulted Berndt as a “block party” and asked its top candidate Jan Redmann in a very provocative way how long his party was willing to “let itself be castrated.”
AfD leader Alice Weidel was similarly positive shortly after the first forecasts for the 2024 Brandenburg election. “It is a happy occasion, we are the winners of the evening,” the party’s co-leader celebrated on ARD. The vote was merely tactical. “You have to accept that, the East is blue,” Weidel said in a conversation with ARD presenter Sascha Hingst. She then went on to criticize a “historically bad” CDU, mentioning the punished traffic light coalition, in which the FDP and the Greens in Brandenburg were also below five percent according to the first figures.
AfD leader Weidel criticizes the media in an ARD interview after the Brandenburg election
Weidel’s scolding was not over yet, however, and the media, such as ARD, with whom she was speaking at the same time, also got it. “I believe that this green, woke madness has been broken,” Weidel said, and was just about to start talking about the “industry destroyers of Germany” when she was interrupted by moderator Hingst. He asked Weidel about the fact that so many people in the country do not want the AfD to form a government.
“The media is largely to blame for all these excesses,” Weidel replied with a provocative grin. She spoke of “media campaigns over and over again, using German taxpayers’ money and GEZ fees, against just one rival party, the AfD. Despite this, we are very satisfied with having achieved such a result. I see this evening’s result as an important step. We are very relaxed. You will see what the federal elections show.”
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Moderator Hingst ended the conversation – but not without following up on Weidel’s criticism of the media: “Thank you very much, Ms. Weidel, and now that our license fee money has brought the AfD to the screen, we’re now moving on to the SPD,” Hingst said, leading into the statement by SPD man Dietmar Woidke. His reaction brought the ARD man both praise and criticism.
The transition was celebrated as a “good counterattack” on social media service X. “I can’t take it anymore, great saying,” wrote another user, while others described Hingst’s sentence as particularly casual. But there were also comments in the opposite direction. Some comments on the video sequence of the interview accuse Hingst of arrogance, and the word “big shot” is also used in one post. Many also consider the moderator’s response to Weidel’s direct dig at public broadcasting to be “embarrassing.”
Whether “embarrassing” or “casual”, the scene certainly attracted attention. And it is the second time in a row that ARD has had a row with the AfD after a state election. After the Thuringia election, AfD man Björn Höcke lost his temper in an interview with ARD. (hans)
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