The election victory came as a great relief for Chancellor Scholz’s SPD, which has ruled the state of Brandenburg continuously since 1990.
In Germany, the Chancellor By Olaf Scholz the social democratic SPD has won the state election in Brandenburg. The party already secured the victory predicted by door-to-door polls with a narrow 30.9 percent support.
The far-right Alternative for Germany, or AfD, received the second most votes, 29.2 percent.
The new far-left party BSW received the third most votes with a historic 13.5 percent support.
The right-wing conservative Christian Democratic Party CDU came in fourth with 12.1 percent support.
The election victory came as a major relief for Scholz’s SPD, which has ruled the state of Brandenburg continuously since German reunification in 1990.
In addition, Chancellor Scholz’s own constituency is in Potsdam, the administrative capital of Brandenburg.
– It’s great that we won, Scholz commented in New York, where he is participating in the UN meeting this week.
The Prime Minister of Brandenburg and the leading candidate of the SPD Dietmar Woidke had distanced himself from Scholz during the election and criticized the policies of the Chancellor’s government, so the SPD has enough of a challenge to strengthen its support.
At the beginning of September, German fringe parties won a big election in the eastern states of Thuringia and Saxony.
The voting percentage in Brandenburg rose to 73 percent from 61 percent five years ago, according to the public service television channel ZDF.
Sources: AP, Reuters, STT