1 September 2024 at 18:01 Far-right party AfD largest in the state election in Thuringia, according to election day polls Election day polls in the German state of Thuringia show that the far-right party AfD is the largest in a German state for the first time. – A historic election victory, says party leader Alice Weidel. Election day polls by broadcasters ARD and ZDF show that the party gets between 30 and 33 percent in the state. According to ZDF’s survey, the AfD gets 33.5 percent, up 10 percentage points from the last election in 2019. The Christian Democratic CDU is at 24.5 percent, while the newcomer BSW on the far left gets 14.5 percent. The newcomer BSW on the outer left is also doing very well. The Social Democrats, the Greens and the Free Democrats, who all sit in Prime Minister Olaf Scholz’s federal government, are doing very poorly. In the neighboring state of Saxony, which also had elections for the state assembly on Sunday, the CDU is just ahead of the AfD in the election day polls, which will nevertheless be the second largest party in the state. ARD’s election day survey for the state shows the CDU at 31.5 per cent, the AfD at 30 and the BSW at 12 per cent. Other parties have made it clear that they do not want to cooperate with the AfD, and it is unlikely that the party will form a government. The AfD in Thuringia and Saxony are both monitored by the German intelligence service BfV and are classified as far-right. Both AfD and BSW have profited a lot from immigration resistance and skepticism in support of Ukraine.
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