Worries about the economy and migration pushed up share for far-right AfD in Hesse and Bavaria, while coalition parties did worse
German chancellor Olaf Scholz’s fractious centre-left coalition has received a sharp rebuke from voters in the key states of Bavaria and Hesse, with economic woes and immigration fears boosting the opposition conservatives and the far right.
At the elections on Sunday the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party burst out of its post-industrial eastern strongholds to score its best ever result in a western state. Polls showed it on course to be the second largest party in Hesse, home to the financial capital Frankfurt.
All three parties in Scholz’s federal coalition – his Social Democrats, the Greens and the pro-business Free Democrats (FDP) – did worse than five years ago in the states, which together account for about a quarter of the German population.
@Clbull @MicroWave yeah. I can’t be the only one watching in utter horror as the project to prevent another world war starting in Europe is dismantled to the cheers of those who would be the first to die in that war, but so few people seem to care enough to stop it.
It’s distressing beyond belief.
Oh I’m not celebrating this at all either. It’s an outright humanitarian disaster waiting to happen.
Those cheering ones aren’t even the ones funding their own peace, they could end up electing the most war like or even socialist leaders of all time, but if Trump wins, Ukraine likely falls and Europe lose any sense of security they have. Maybe thats part of why they vote the way they do, nothing they do will change their security outcome, they just have to wait for America to see what will happen.
People care, but they are exhausted and drowning in rising interest rates, spiking inflation, falling wages, debt…
Wage slaves have just scraps of time to organise and resist,because resisting this bullshit capital corrupt system is work, and most people are already overworked.