If the forecast is correct, it will be the first time since the Second World War that a far-right party has become the largest in a German state election.
Polling station surveys have been published, whose forecasts tend to agree well with Germany’s final election results. TV4’s foreign reporter Jona Källgren is in Germany reporting on Thüringer.
– According to those forecasts, AFD will be the largest party, somewhat as expected. The Christian Democrats come in second place and this new left-wing radical or left-wing populist party BSW comes in at 16 percent, he says.
The largest far-right party
And the result was not as successful for the left-wing radical BSW as had been hoped for.
– It may not be as good for the left-wing populists as expected, but the big news from there is that for the first time in post-war Germany, a far-right party becomes the largest party in an election like this in a state.
But in the state of Saxony, the AFD did not have the same success.
– There AFD ends up in second place and the Christian Democrats come in first place. There, too, the left-wing populist BSW makes a good choice. But there, the Christian Democrats probably breathe a sigh of relief that there was only one state where AFD became the largest party.