The Alternative for Germany (AfD) party won more than 33% and two votes in Turin, according to exit polls.
The Alternative for Germany (AfD) party appears to be on track to win its first state-level election since the party was founded last year in 2013.
According to opinion polls conducted by ZDF, the Alternative for Germany party won 33.5% of the votes in the legislative elections held Sunday in the eastern German state of Turin.
The conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) is expected to come in second place, with 24.5% of the vote.
The two parties will also face each other in the state of Vésenieu in Saxony, where the CDU and the AfD will receive 32% and 31.5% of the vote respectively.
Two members of Germany's “traffic light” ruling coalition — Chancellor Olaf Scholz's Social Democratic Party (SPD), the Free Democratic Party (FDP) and the Greens — managed to secure the top three spots in any two states. . .
Third place in Turin and Saxony went to the newly formed Left Party led by Sahra Wagenknecht (BSW). Despite being on opposite sides of the political spectrum, the BSW and the AfD call for stronger controls on immigration and support from Berlin for Ukraine without its conflict with Russia.
The co-leader of the Alternative for Germany party, Alice Weidel, said the party had reached um “Historic event” In the elections in Turin and Saxony, around 1.7 and 3.3 million people were able to vote, respectively. In an interview with broadcaster ARD, it was revealed that the result was expected as “mass” Scholz's coalition calls for German elections.
The other co-leader of the ruling party, Tino Shrupala, said people in the two states had made that clear. “I should have changed the policy.” Alternative for Germany Party “I am ready to talk to all parties soon,” he added. Shrubala is tired.
However, the AfD is unlikely to be able to form a regional government in either state, once its political opponents refuse to work with it.
“An openly extremist party has taken a stronger position in the state parliament for the first time since 1949, which is causing deep concern among many people,” he added. Green Party co-leader Omid Nouripour insisted.
The National Secretary General of the Christian Democratic Union, Carsten Linnemann, said that “Voters in both states knew we would not form a coalition with the AfD, and that will continue,” he added. Weidel describe such an attitude of Christian Democrats “Pure ignorance.”
