The SPD won 31.2 percent of the vote, and the AfD 29.9 percent – the estimated data reported by German media, stressed that the competition in the Brandenburg Landtag elections was balanced.
If these results are confirmed, the tactics used by the country’s popular Prime Minister, SPD politician Dietmar Woidke, will be proven correct.
Brandenburg Prime Minister Dietmar Woidke of the SPD has threatened that if the AfD wins against his party, he will leave.
When polls showed that the AfD could win the election (and this has been the case in all recent polls), he declared that the fight was whether he would remain head of Brandenburg’s government.
Anyone who wants him to stay in power and prevent the AfD from winning in the eastern country must vote for the SPD, even if he does not have to support the party, he said.
The prime minister did not want Chancellor Olaf Scholz, his party colleague who lives in Brandenburg, to join him on the campaign trail.
The federal SPD is unpopular in eastern Germany, so Woidke did not want Social Democratic Chancellor Olaf Scholz to support him in the election campaign, even though he is a resident of Potsdam, the capital of Brandenburg. Prime Minister Woidke did not want Scholz to appear by his side at the election meeting. He said it was unnecessary because “SPD Brandenburg is fortunate to have a strong leader.”
