While Prime Minister Michael Kretschmer (CDU) will be facing losses in Saxony, his counterpart Dietmar Woidke (SPD) in Brandeburg is struggling to become the strongest force. Here, the SPD is in a head-to-head race with the AfD. Both parties are – according to surveys – polling at around 21 percent.
In Saxony, the CDU, however, in the past few days gained some points in polls, coming in at just over 30 percent. In the last Landtag election, the Union had still brought 39,4 percent. The AfD currently ranks at around 25 percent in the state. This corresponds to around two and a half times the 2014 election result (9,7 percent).
Prime Minister Kretschmer could also suffer defeat in his constituency. He is a candidate in Görlitz, where AfD strong-man Sebastian Wippel is doing well. He had won the first ballot in the mayoral election in the city and eventually lost only because all other parties supported the candidate of the CDU in the second ballot.
The SPD, which governs as a junior partner with the CDU, however, expect a single-digit result. It currently ranks at 8,5 percent. The FDP is hoping to cling onto five percent each in Saxony and in Brandenburg to survive. The Greens, on the other hand, can count on rich profits and their candidates are hoping for double-digit results in both federal states.
In Saxony about 3,2 million voters have been called to vote for a new parliament. In Brandenburg, 2,1 million citizens are allowed to go to the polls.
The trending topic in Germany was the possible “threateningly” good performance of the AfD in Saxony and Brandenburg. The establishment had wanted to prevent voters from choosing the AfD.
Germans continue to be deeply divided on immigration. This was shown by a recent Bertelsmann study which showed that a majority of Germans say, on the one hand, that there is too much immigration to Germany, and on the other, that the importance of immigration for the German economy is correct.
For one thing, citizens seem to realize that not everything that is good for the globalists is good for the country. On the other hand, the survey proves that most Germans do not reject all foreigners, as is often assumed by the left-wing media. Even at PEGIDA demonstrations, which are harshly criticised by mainstream opinion-makers, no one is seriously claiming that all immigrants are criminal, lazy and stupid.
But unlike many journalists and politicians however, most Germans are not naïve enough to believe that every migrant who comes to Germany is a scientific genius, driven solely by hard work and love for Germany.
They certainly do not believe that immigrants are starting the long journey across the Mediterranean to save German pensions and the country’s social system through hard labor.
Mainstream pundits unsurprisingly called the study “schizophrenic”.