A powerful failure of AFD. They didn't win with any of the competitors. “The result of the mobilization of voters”
In the decisive round of local elections on Sunday, all AFD candidates lost to their competitors from CDU and SPD. AFD candidates entered the second round of elections in Duisburg, Hagen, Bergheim and Gelsenkirchen.
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– This is the result of the mobilization of voters of other parties against AFD – said political scientist Martin Florak of the WDR television station. One of the topics of the election campaign was the extortion of social benefits by the citizens of Bulgaria and Romania.
A large AFD result was not enough, he was not successful
In the first round, two weeks ago, AFD She almost tripled her result five years ago, winning 14.5 percent. votes. The best result grouping Tino Chrupalli and Alice Weidel obtained in Gelsenkirchen – 29.9 percent. Some AfD structures are observed by German services due to the far -right views of party members.
The greatest sensation of the election is the loss by SPD, for the first time since 1947, the position of the mayor of Dortmund. In the capital of Landu, Dusseldorf, will still rule CDU. The largest city of NRW – Cologne will remain in the hands of SPD. In the first round of elections, two weeks ago, CDU won 33.3 percent. votes, one percentage point less than five years ago, and SPD 22.1 percent, less by 2.2 percentage points compared to 2020. Both the Christian Democrats and Social Democrats achieved their worst result in the history of Germany.
North Rhine-Westphalia, Land, which is the economic center of Germany, has been a bastion of SPD for decades. Since 2017, CDU has been governing, for three years in a coalition with green. A party of ecologists suffered a severe defeat – She won only 13.5 percent votes, i.e. by 6.5 percentage points less than in previous elections.
The NRW inhabited by approx. 18 million people is the most populous of 16 lands forming the Federal Republic of Germany. 13.7 million voters were entitled to vote. People over 16 could vote – both Germany and citizens of other EU countries registered in the territory of the Land.
