The German press comments on the state election in Thuringia:
"It will come as expected in Thuringia, a coalition will be hard to find .. The AfD of the Nazi Björn Höcke has more than doubled its 2014 result, strong enough to exercise majority coalitions - red-red-green or black -Rot - impossible to do.Of course, one can say: Well, then is now the time for unexperienced coalitions, will find one, but with the formation of a government, the challenges are not overcome, before the election result those parties that carry democracy. "
"Southgerman newspaper"
State election Thuringia 2019
Preliminary final result
Second vote result
Shares in percent
CDU
21.8
-11.7
The left
31
+2.8
SPD
8.2
-4.2
AFD
23.4
+12.8
green
5.2
-0.5
FDP
5
+2.5
other
5.4
-1.7
allocation of seats
Total: 90
Majority: 46 seats
29
8th
5
5
21
22
The Left (29)
SPD (8)
Green (5)
FDP (5)
CDU (21)
AfD (22)
Source: Provincial Returning Officer
Results in detail
"The Union is gambling away its bourgeois brand essence: If now also voices are loud to want to explore the cooperation with the Left and AfD, it has finally arrived in the arbitrariness And dispensed with: the voters now seems almost does not care where from Green, left, far right - no matter the motto: Nothing but gone. "
"Image"
"In Thuringia, there was a serious duel of acceptable candidates, both left-leaning Prime Minister Bodo Ramelov and top CDU candidate Mike Mohring have clearly and unmistakably demarcated against the right, democracy has won because identifiable individuals have stood for identifiable alternatives but do not believe that with this AFD election result Höcke's thoughts are no longer effective and the brown danger is dwindling. "
"Frankfurter Rundschau" (fr.de)
DPA / Martin Rubble
Has a good smile: Bodo Ramelow, Thuringia's prime minister
"What's left is - Bodo Ramelow, the first Prime Minister of the Left, who hardly recognizes himself as such and makes a well-esteemed figure as the Cretschmann of the East, after Winfried Kretschmann, the first green leader in the long conservatively governed Baden -Württemberg Thuringia was after the fall of a CDU-Bastion, 20 years ago, there was even an absolute majority, but now Ramelow.Who wants to replace it, must already be legitimized.
"Tagesspiegel", Berlin
"Basically, one can say that the other parties do not seem to find a recipe against the AfD - it's not just the former NPD voters who have defected, but the AfD is now eating its way into the political arena, despite slogans and artisans who used to have their political home in the CDU and FDP make their cross as much with the AfD as they do with the workers who actually tend to belong to the SPD and the Left Party - it's not just a matter of precarious circumstances that seem to be overhanging The established parties have failed to take care of those who do not feel that they have won globalization. "
"Handelsblatt"
"The almost historic election victory of the left is almost completely on the account of Bodo Ramelow.Future-oriented, undogmatic, for a red quite bourgeois. (...) The most solid among the feasible options would certainly be the cooperation with the CDU Bitter is the election result for the Social Democrats: Einstein - historically low and a very serious alarm signal in the direction of the federal SPD (...) Frightening: Their success [of the AfD] procures Björn Höckes of all things right-wing extremist wing in the federal party. "
"Magdeburg Volksstimme"
"The shock is great, but less about the success of the AfD protest and right-wing party, because that was to be expected." The nationalistic attitudes and the anger speech overloaded with a large inferiority complex apparently mobilized their backs for people who had previously been absent The name of the Westimport Björn Höcke to make an annoying industrial accident, which is not just a pan-German phenomenon, but one of the new federal states.Much worse is the shrinking of the old people's parties CDU and SPD.
"Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung", Heidelberg
"The CDU and SPD are getting the worst scores they have ever achieved in Thuringia - catastrophic election results, also because voters are currently much more dissatisfied with the federal government than was the case with the last Thuringia election Grand Coalition is ending a year of suffering, only a vote in Hamburg could be made in 2020. Now you could finally concentrate on governing without any noise, but after the Thuringia election it is more uncertain than ever whether you really want it. "
"Heilbronner Voice"
"A clear victory: The Left Party has achieved not only in Thuringia their best result so far, it is also the best in a state election ever since 1990. Why is that? At first glance, especially to Bodo Ramelow His popularity in the state is great (...) Like Dietmar Woidke (SPD) in Brandenburg and Michael Kretschmer (CDU) in Saxony, Ramelow has gained above all as an incumbent, with 40 percent of the new Left voters not coming up with the idea for the party vote."
"Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung"
More about the state election in Thuringia
"The result of red-red-green is, according to the circumstances, already half a miracle, not only, but especially in the East, we are experiencing a massive legal trend." As in Saxony and Brandenburg, more than a fifth chose AfD - itself with a fascist leader like Höcke, anti-AfD campaigns are mobilizing the clientele of the democratic parties, as shown by the increased turnout, but the protest voters are bleeding all the scandals of right-wing extremism.
"TAZ"
International media for election in Thuringia:
"Presumably, the CDU is doing a bit better if it defers the bourgeois fall and instead tolerates a red-red-green minority government, but even in this constellation it will have to make a constructive policy with the Left Party if it does not want one from Ramelow Martyrs who care for the well-being of the Thuringians alone If the CDU continue to make such massive losses, they will not be able to afford the arrogance against the Left Party and the AfD any longer - the task of their principle, neither with the right-wing populist nor Coaling with the SED successors is only a matter of time. "
"The New Zurich Times"
"The far-right alternative for Germany celebrated a strong showing in the former Communist East on Sunday, more than doubling its result in a state election held two weeks after an attack on a synagogue, some with the use of a hate-filled language by the Party (...).
The party has no chance to govern, because all other parties have excluded cooperation with her. But their strong performance will likely resonate in other ways. The election result could further strengthen the power of Björn Höcke, party leader in Thuringia and most notorious figure in the party. "
"New York Times"
"In the regional elections in Thuringia wins the left of Prime Minister Bodo Ramelow.Most thanks to its Prime Minister, the extreme left is the strongest party in a German state, which had never happened since 1990. But it is a bitter victory for Ramelow, by the The last failure of the SPD and the misstep of the Greens lose the majority with which he ruled in the last five years.
For the first time since reunification, the CDU is no longer at the top, which plunges to a historic low and is only third force behind the AfD. The party of the nationalist extreme right doubles its votes and confirms its strong growth in the East, where it is now consistently voted by one in four voters. "
"La Stampa", Rome
"(Prime Minister Bodo) Ramelow did not succeed in driving voters out of their East German inferiority complex and changing their attitude to the upheavals in German society, but especially the fear of strangers, the campaign against the" enemies of the traditional family "and the Negation of climate change were the main motives in the election campaign of the AfD.
Björn Höcke, the country chief of the AfD, added historical revisionism to this mixture. For example, by protesting against the memory of Jewish victims in the Nazi era. The AfD in Thuringia has close contacts with open and underground neo-Nazi organizations. The land is often referred to as a "brown swamp". The election result for the AfD confirms this diagnosis. "
"Gazeta Wyborcza", Warsaw
