Germany: AfD triumphs, CDU maintains, BSW surprises, government disintegrates

In Germany in the two states where voting took place, things went, more or less, as the polls showed .

In Thuringia there was a resounding and remarkable victory of the right-wing AfD party, which reached 33 percent, The CDU strengthened slightly and reached 23,6 percent. The left-wing populist party BSW went from zero to 15,7 percent. The extreme leftist Linke party comes in at 13%. The SPD is at just over 6,1 percent, while the FDP liberals and the Greens are below 5 percent.

In Saxony, the leading party is the AfD with 3,4% and it is a surprise, but followed at a very close distance by CDU at 33,3%, BSW comes in at 12,4%, while the SPD is at 5,8%% , Everyone else, from the Liberals to the left-wing Die Linke, to Greens, are under 5% and out of the game

In Thuringia the only seriously possible government would be CDU and AfD, but the CDU is stubborn in not wanting to deal with AfD. In this way, as the elections are showing, it does not harm the right, in fact, it benefits it, since it can continue to present itself as an anti-sympathetic party.

There are other possible options in Saxony, such as a CDU, BSW, and SPD government, but this would be  a really left leaning government.  Here too there would be the CDU AfD option, but the point made about Thuringia applies here too.

Certainly there is a big, huge, loser: the SPD, Greens and FDP governing coalition . FDP is literally going into extinction, more than halving its votes, and the leadership should begin to rethink whether to continue the government experience. The Greens also come out strongly downsized, and Germans blame them, and their maximalism, for much of the current problems. The people may be right.

After the double victory, demonstrations were held in Berlin and other cities against AfD, all of which do not weaken, indeed strengthen, the right-wing party. If Germany continues with these self-destructive policies, they will soon be the majority.
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