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Voters in Bavaria and Hesse have largely approved the ruling SPD. Bad news for the governing coalition.
Published on August 10, 2023 7:34 p.m
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Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz during a press conference in Berlin (Germany), October 8, 2023. (FABIAN SOMMER / DPA / AFP)
The results do not bode well for the Chancellor. The three parties of Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s center-left coalition suffered a major defeat in the elections in Hesse and Bavaria on Sunday, October 8th. Initial estimates also show an upswing in the extreme right in these conservative bastions.
Olaf Scholz’s Social Democrats (SPD) are clearly in the decline of the European Central Bank (ECB) in the two elections in Bavaria, the largest German state in terms of area, where they do not even reach 9%, and in Hesse, where the headquarters are in Frankfurt. . The rest of the coalition is not spared: the Liberals of the FDP fall below the 5 percent mark in Hesse, while the Greens record a more moderate decline. In the medium term, Olaf Scholz’s government was sanctioned in elections in which popular concerns about the industrial crisis in Europe’s largest economy and the resurgence of the migration issue played a central role.
Satisfaction of the extreme right
Estimates suggest that the conservatives won both elections, as expected, and the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party could take second place. “We are on the right track,” the co-chair reacted quickly. by AfD Alice Weidel. This anti-immigrant party, which also criticizes climate protection measures that involve high prices and constraints, thus confirms its rise in the polls at national level, where it is behind the right with between 20 and 22% of voting intentions.
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