Germany’s Right-Wing Party Wins Historic Election, Falls Short Of Majority

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Germany’s Right-Wing Party Wins Historic Election, Falls Short Of Majority

Germany’s right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) party has scored a historic win in an election for the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt, but fell just short of an outright majority.

Sunday’s results show that the AfD obtained nearly 44 percent of the vote, leaving the party just three seats short of an absolute majority in parliament, Reuters reported. (RELATED: Ukraine Is Now A Landlocked Country)

“This is a historic moment for our beautiful region,” the party’s leading candidate, Ulrich Siegmund, told CNN. “The people have shown very clearly that they finally want political change. And above all, they’ve shown that they want it with us.”

This would mark the farthest a far-right party has gotten toward achieving power since World War II.

Despite being the largest party in the state parliament, the AfD could struggle to form a governing coalition because the other parties have ruled out working with it, according to the BBC.

However, the AfD still has a path to either obtaining a few more seats or finding potential allies to form a governing coalition.

A potential ally could be a coalition with the far-left Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance (BSW), which also achieved a historic victory by passing the 5 percent threshold to enter parliament; however, the AfD has suggested it would not be interested in a deal, CNN reported.

Alternatively, the AfD could appeal to individual conservative lawmakers from Merz’s Christian Democrats (CDU), which obtained just 17.2 percent of the vote, BBC reported.

However, the CDU has a longstanding refusal to work with the AfD, according to Reuters.

“I must admit, this is the worst election defeat the CDU has suffered in years – indeed, in decades,” German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said Monday, according to CNN, adding that “This election result will have to have consequences.”

The AfD campaigned on pushing schools and other vital institutions toward promoting conservative values, working with Russia, overhauling public broadcasting, and curbing immigration, including a policy of “remigration” in which non-German migrants would be sent back to their native countries, CNN reported.

“Germans simply are fed up with policy being made against Germany’s interests. We stood for election very clearly to represent the interests of our country – not Ukraine’s, not any other country’s,” party co-leader Alice Weidel told CNN. “We will cut all unnecessary spending, we will control our borders, we will deport everyone obligated to leave the country.”