The German far-right party AfD won this Sunday his first chamber presidency in a medium-sized city, in Pirna, in the east of the country, a new local victory that confirms the rise of this eurosceptic party and anti-immigration.
According to the results announced this afternoon, the far-right candidate Tim Lochner won the second round of the elections in this city of 40,000 inhabitants in the state of Saxony, located not far from Dresden and the border with the Czech Republic.
With 38.54%, the head of a carpentry company defeated his two rivals for the position of mayor in these local elections, for which the current leader of the municipality did not run again.
The victory of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) consolidates the rise of the party, which is currently facing the wave of public discontent with the government coalition formed by Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Social Democrats, the Greens and the Liberals, inflation and the measures of climate protection. .
AfD co-leader Alice Weidel welcomed a “historical result” to your party in a message on social network X.
With national results of around 20% of voting intentions, the far-right party regularly surpasses Olaf Scholz’s Social Democratic Party (SPD) in polls, behind the conservative CDU of former Chancellor Angela Merkel, but by far. ahead of the Greens and the liberals. (FDP).
The coalition government’s popularity has just suffered a new blow with a stern warning from the Constitutional Court, which in mid-November rejected the government’s budget plans, leading to the urgent adoption of cost-cutting measures.
The AfD’s results are even better in the regional states of East Germany, including Saxony.
Regional elections will be held in three Länder next year (federated states) of the former GDR, in Saxony, as well as in Thuringia and Brandenburg, the region surrounding Berlin, elections in which AfD hopes to consolidate its achievements. At the end of June, the party won the leadership of a Thuringian town hall.
Founded 10 years ago, the AfD already has 83 seats in the Bundestag (German parliament).
Source: TSF
