The far-right AfD will have to wait until it emerges from total isolation. It will not repeat its success three weeks ago, when it won a landslide election in another eastern state, Thuringia, which unnerved the elites.
Polls had predicted a win for the AfD and Brandenburg. But he lost there on Sunday to the SPD, winning 29.2 percent of the vote, 1.7 percentage points less than the Social Democrats. More precisely, he lost to Brandenburg’s popular Prime Minister Dietmar Woidke. He threatened to leave office if the AfD won. He urged voters to vote for the SPD in his favor, even if they didn’t like it. It worked.
The future of Chancellor Olaf Scholz and his federal government after the elections in Brandenburg
But this is no reason to rejoice in the federal coalition, because it was done at the expense of the SPD’s partners – the Greens and the FDP, which did not pass the electoral threshold. He also has a bitter taste for the Social Democratic Chancellor, although he has to pretend to like him.
Woidke won because he hid Olaf Scholz and did not allow him to appear with him at rallies. And Scholz was a resident of the Brandenburg capital, Potsdam, he voted there and had his constituency there.
