The AfD came second in the state elections in Brandenburg. Party leader Alice Weidel quickly found those responsible for the result.
AfD co-federal spokeswoman Alice Weidel has blamed “the media” for the fact that her party did not become the strongest force in the state elections in Brandenburg. “What is being done here, with all their might, are media campaigns over and over again – with German taxpayers’ money and with GEZ fees – against just one rival party, and that is against the AfD,” she said on Sunday evening after the first forecast on ARD.
AfD in second place in Brandenburg
Weidel did not provide any evidence of an alleged media campaign, nor did she falsely claim that the press and broadcasting in Germany are financed with taxpayers’ money.
According to initial forecasts, the AfD won around 30 percent of the vote in the state election in Potsdam, placing it just behind Prime Minister Dietmar Woidke’s SPD.
The background to Weidel’s accusations were speculations by moderator Sascha Hingst that voters sometimes did not vote for the party they actually wanted to vote for – “The main thing is that you do not become the strongest force,” he told Weidel. “That says a lot about the antipathy towards you in the country. Shouldn’t that give you something to think about?”
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The AfD leader previously spoke of “tactical” voting by voters, which prevented the AfD from coming first. Nevertheless, Weidel was “satisfied” with the election result, saying it was a “happy occasion”. “The East is blue, we are the strongest force in the East,” she stressed. “You will see what the federal elections bring.”
At the same time, Weidel underlined the significant losses suffered by the CDU, FDP and Greens. “I believe that this green, woke madness has been broken by the destroyers of Germany’s industry – that is already a very good sign.”
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After the conversation with Alice Weidel, ARD switched to the SPD’s election party. There, Dietmar Woidke said: “It seems that, as so often in history, it was the Social Democrats who stopped extremists on their way to power.”
Sources: news agency DPA
Source: Stern
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