In the decisive circular of the local elections on Sunday, all AfD candidates lost to their competitors from CDU and SPD. AfD candidates entered the second circular of elections in Duisburg, Hagen, Bergheim and Gelsenkirchen.
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— This is the consequence of the mobilization of voters of the remaining parties against the AfD — said political scientist Martin Florak tv station WDR. 1 of the subjects of the electoral run was the fraud of social benefits by Bulgarian and Romanian citizens.
AfD's large score wasn't good adequate for him.
In the first round, 2 weeks ago, AfD almost tripled her score from 5 years ago, winning 14.5 percent of the vote. The best consequence of the group Tino Chrupalli and Alice Weidel was scored in Gelsenkirchen — 29.9%. any of the AfD structures are observed by the German services due to the utmost right-wing views of organization members.
The biggest sensation of the election is the failure by the SPD, for the first time since 1947, of the position of mayor of Dortmund. In the capital of the Land, Dusseldorf, the CDU will proceed to rule. The largest city of NRW — Cologne will stay in the hands of the SPD. In the first circular of elections, 2 weeks ago, the CDU won 33.3 percent of the votes, 1 percent point little than 5 years ago, and the SPD 22.1 percent, little 2.2 percent point compared to 2020. Both chadects, which social democrats achieved their worst consequence in the past of Germany.
North Rhine-Westphalia, a land that was the economical centre of Germany, was a bastion of the SPD for decades. Since 2017, he has run the CDU, for 3 years in a coalition with the Greens. The environmentalist organization has failed badly — she won only 13.5% of the votes, or 6.5 percent points little than in erstwhile elections.
Inhabited by about 18 million people, NRW is the most populous of the 16 states forming the national Republic of Germany. There were 13.7 million voters entitled to vote. Persons over 16 years of age may have voted, both Germany and nationals of another EU countries registered in the Land.
