SPD set to finish ahead of far-right AfD in Brandenburg vote – DW – 09/22/2024
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First projections in state elections in the eastern German state of Brandenburg give the Social Democrats a slim lead over the far-right AfD in the race to be the largest party. Follow DW for more.

  • @[email protected]English
    19•3 days ago

    Barely, and depending on the source, the greens might not make it, which essentally leads to a “everyone but the open fascists” coalition, which will get exactly nothing done - which will boost the fascists even further, since democratic parties obviously get nothing done.

  • @[email protected]English
    9•3 days ago

    They still have to form a coalition with other parties to get over 50% to form a ruling coalition.

    If they don’t ally with either of the Russian-backed anti-Ukraine parties AFD (right) and BSW (left), it’ll take just about everyone else to get over 50%

    • @[email protected]OPEnglish
      12•3 days ago

      It’s worse than that. The numbers I originally posted was only the exit poll. Now we have a preliminary result and it’s not looking good.

      Here are the results:

      Parties with less than 5% of the vote share don’t get any seats (there are exceptions but these don’t apply here, resulting in this makeup of state parliament:

      You need 45 seats to have a governing majority. SPD and CDU together have only 44. There is no majority without either the fascists from the AFD or the tankies from the BSW.

  • @[email protected]English
    8•3 days ago

    For those like me who don’t speak German, the S is for social-democratic, the p is for party and the d is for de (Germany)

    • @[email protected]English
      7•2 days ago

      For those unaware of German politics, the S is for decoration purposes only, because “Party of Germany” sounds silly.

      • @[email protected]English
        1•2 days ago

        There’s been nothing social about the SPD in more than 100 years. Remember Rosa, remember Karl