Exit polls have the far-right AfD leading the Social Democrats in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and the Left Party ahead in Berlin. Merz referred to the outcome as “a disaster”. DW has more.
Exit polls have the far-right AfD leading the Social Democrats in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and the Left Party ahead in Berlin. Merz referred to the outcome as “a disaster”. DW has more.
What Skave said: getting 30%+ is a significant gain in ground for them. If it was a CDU opposition, that would be less concerning, but the AfD will do what they can to obstruct RRG at getting anything done. I’m not gonna shed any tears over the CDU taking a giant L, but they would have been the lesser evil.
I’m just saying it’s not quite apocalyptic yet. The left(-ish) parties (compared to CDU and the Nazi reboot nobody needed) are still in the fight. The best hope now is for RRG to get their shit together, acknowledge the political implementations and actually improve things in ways people notice in time.
Politics shouldn’t be about short-term gains only, but right now, we need those to hamstring the populists’ “see, they’re not actually changing anything” rhetoric. If we can’t rely on the media to report fairly, the successes need to be so visible as to spread by word of mouth and social media.