In local elections held on Thursday, the far-right German party AFD set a clever electoral trap for its opponents. As a result, the political situation in Thuringia, a state in the Weimar region, is completely blocked.

ANALYSIS

The German press talks about a political earthquake, a moral dam that has given way. For the first time on Thursday, a president of land (the German regions), was elected thanks to the votes of the extreme right, and more precisely of the nationalist party AFD. Indignation is at its peak, but it is blind.

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No clear majority

This is a poll that took place at the end of October in the former GDR, in the Weimar region. In these elections, nobody obtained a clear majority, as in every election for four years. The CDU and the SPD disintegrate a little more failure after failure, but continue to govern in cohabitation in Berlin. Thursday was the third round of this election. The outgoing is a trade unionist from Die Linke, the left heir to the communist dictatorship of the GDR.

AFD had sworn to have its head, and the far-right party kept its promise. It presented its own candidate, but it was an illusion, since its militants voted by secret ballot for the candidate best placed, a liberal, who capped the outgoing with the post. Nothing had been engineered, no electoral alliance, no formal agreement.

A skillfully led trap

After the ballot, the winner refused to govern with AFD and the CDU management demanded a new ballot, which the local CDU refused. A trap skillfully led by AFD since it divides, it discredits. The new liberal president refuses to resign, and for his part, the left enraged.