The Landtags of Saxony and Brandenburg state elections of the 1st of September 2019

Overview
State elections will be held in Brandenburg on 1 September 2019.

Background
The AfD leader, Andreas Kalbitz, has been criticized for neo-Nazi ties. It was revealed by a leaked report from the German embassy in Athens, Greece that he had attended a rally of the neo-Nazi Greek party Golden Dawn along with other members of the neo-Nazi German NPD party. In addition, it was revealed that he had collaborated with his father-in-law on two films that portrayed Adolf Hitler in a positive light.

Recent polling
The SPD folded up and the CDU lost to the advantage of both the AfD and Grune.

Voting
By early afternoon, significantly more people had taken part in the state elections in Brandenburg than five years ago. According to the state election director, 31.3 percent of the voters cast their votes by 2 pm. At the time of the 2014 elections, the figure was only 22.4 percent.[11]

Aftermath
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Overview
State elections in Saxony are due to be held on 1 September 2019, as required by the state constitution. Incumbent Minister President Michael Kretschmer is standing for re-election.

Background
Saxony last held state elections in August 2014. The CDU won those elections with 40% of the vote,  and entered into a coalition with the SPD. Since then, Saxony has emerged as a stronghold of the AfD, which achieved the highest percentage of the state's votes both in the 2017 federal elections and in the 2019 EU election in Germany.

On May 2019, Saxony's electoral commission ruled that more than half of the AFD's candidate list was invalid. However, in July 2019, a court in the eastern German state handed a partial victory to the AfD after overturning the state electoral committee's decision to restrict the party's number of candidates.

Given AfD’s growing strength, a minority of CDU right-wingers have started to consider cooperating with them. others have been opposed to the idea.

Recent polling
The Die Linke and the CDU both folded up to the advantage of both the AfD and Grune.

Voting
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Result
Alternative for Germany (AfD) received its highest share of the vote in any state or federal election, while the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and Die Linke both fell to record lows in Saxony.

Government formation
Incumbent Minister-President Kretschmer (CDU) is likely to retain his job as his party remains the largest bloc. Kretschmer ruled out working with AfD or leading a minority government during the campaign; as the CDU also rejects working with Die Linke, this leaves as the only realistic possibility the so-called "Kenya coalition" of CDU, SPD and Greens. Such a coalition has governed Saxony-Anhalt since 2016.[7]

Aftermath
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The AfD's political game
The Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, is the third-largest group in the Bundestag as of 2017. They have conflated things like the German government's failure to invest in Saxony (and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern), economic decline since 2018 and the closure of Germany's coal mines (despite of a $44,000,000,000 industrial reinvestment fund) with Brexit, fat cat bosses, hating American nationalism, anti-Semitism, Islamophobia and hatred on immigrants in a heady mix of vote winning hate.

Also see

 * 1) Germany
 * 2) Specific elections
 * 3) 01/09/2019 Germany alert
 * 4) The political control of the German Länder's Landtag in 2018