AfD could fly out of the state parliament for the first time – cross-party joy: “That would be nice”

Created: 05/08/2022, 19:54

By: Anna-Katharina Ahnefeld

The AfD is about to leave the state parliament in Schleswig-Holstein.

For the first time, the right-wing populist party could be thrown out of a state parliament.

Kiel – In the state elections in Schleswig-Holstein, the right-wing populist AfD has to worry about being able to re-enter the state parliament.

According to the first forecasts, the alternative for Germany is currently at 4.6 to 4.9 percent.

The party is thus below the necessary five percent hurdle - and could be voted out of a state parliament for the first time.

In the last state election in 2017, the party still got 5.9 percent.

Does the AfD stand before the state parliament?

AfD top candidate Jörg Nobis was disappointed by his party's poor performance in the Schleswig-Holstein state elections in 2022.

"We're still shaking," said Nobis of the German Press Agency.

And added: "We hope, of course, that we will now increase a bit so that in the end it is still enough to get over the 5 percent hurdle." All parties would have a hard time against the popularity of Prime Minister Daniel Günther (CDU). had struggled, said Nobis.

In addition, the topic of Corona no longer plays a role in people's experience.

The AfD top candidate Jörg Nobis is in the party headquarters shortly before the presentation of the election campaign for the state elections in Schleswig-Holstein.

© Marcus Brandt/dpa

In the course of the pandemic, the AfD had shown solidarity with the lateral thinker movement and called for an end to all corona measures.

The AfD's position on the Ukraine war and arms deliveries could also have cost the party votes.

The AfD had rejected arms deliveries to Ukraine.

Schleswig-Holstein election 2022: AfD could be voted out of the state parliament for the first time – “We are still shaking”

AfD federal spokesman Tino Chrupalla, who, like the deputy federal spokeswoman Beatrix von Storch, followed the forecasts in the AfD's rooms in the state building, told the dpa that the party would certainly have wished for a better result.

"But we'll just wait and see.

It's going to be a long evening."

The poor performance of the AfD meets with joy elsewhere.

On Twitter, the Greens MP Paula Piechotta quoted her own statements according to Vice Chancellor and Federal Minister of Economics Robert Habeck (Greens): "This may be the first state parliament that the AfD will be thrown out of again." The enthusiasm about this is apparently cross-party.

Martin Hagen, FDP parliamentary group leader in the Bavarian state parliament, commented: "Congratulations to Daniel Günther, the clear winner in #SchleswigHolstein.

Black and yellow is possible and the AfD could fly out of a state parliament for the first time – that would be nice.” Federal Finance Minister Christian Lindner (FDP) also thought so: “The greatest success of the democratic center: It will probably be a state parliament without right-wing populists!”, tweeted the FDP politician.

And SPD member of the Bundestag Derya Türk-Nachbaur spoke up as follows: "My only consolation tonight: the #noAfD will probably be thrown out of the state parliament." Meanwhile, your own party is in Schleswig-Holstein, in the words of the SPD Secretary General Kevin Kühnert, "got under the wheels".

According to the forecasts of ZDF and ARD, the SPD only got 15.5 to 16 percent.

It is the historically worst result for the party in Schleswig-Holstein.

(aka with dpa)

According to a study available to the editorial network Germany, unvaccinated and AfD voters tend to believe in conspiracy theories about the Ukraine war.