Germany, the far right soars in the east. Afd scores. Scholz government trembles

Now Scholz is weaker also at European level

German far-right surges in elections inEast Germany. It is a head to head between CDU and AfD that is emerging in the regional elections in Saxony. According to the ZDF exit poll, the Christian Democrats obtained 32% of the votes, while the far-right party obtained 31.5%. The new left-wing populist formation also did very well. Bsw (pro-Russian), which obtained 14.5% of the votes, while the SPD stopped at 7.5%. The Left lost to 4.5% (-5.9), the SPD took 7.5%, the Greens were given at 5% and the Liberals at 1%.

According to the exit polls of ZDF, in the regional elections in Thuringia AfD won 33.5%, winning for the first time in a Land. CDU is second with 24.5%; the party Bsw Sara Wagneknecht’s party took 14.5 percent, the Left Party 11.5 percent, the SPD 6.5 percent, the Greens 4 percent and the FDP just 1 percent.

A very hard blow for the federal government in Berlin led by Olaf Scholz, already weak due to the economic crisis and now even more fragile at a European level.

“We have a very good result in Saxony, in Thuringia it is even sensational, with a historic result. It is clear that people want a change in politics,” said the national leader of the German far-right AfD. Tino Chrupallacommenting on the party’s results in eastern Germany to ZDF. Chrupalla is at the AfD party in Dresden. “It is important that the Greens, the most dangerous party in Germany, are out of the parliament in Thuringia,” he added.