First projections in state elections in the eastern German state of Brandenburg give the Social Democrats a slim lead over the far-right AfD in the race to be the largest party. Follow DW for more.
They still have to form a coalition with other parties to get over 50% to form a ruling coalition.
If they don’t ally with either of the Russian-backed anti-Ukraine parties AFD (right) and BSW (left), it’ll take just about everyone else to get over 50%
It’s worse than that. The numbers I originally posted was only the exit poll. Now we have a preliminary result and it’s not looking good.
Here are the results:
Parties with less than 5% of the vote share don’t get any seats (there are exceptions but these don’t apply here, resulting in this makeup of state parliament:
You need 45 seats to have a governing majority. SPD and CDU together have only 44. There is no majority without either the fascists from the AFD or the tankies from the BSW.
They still have to form a coalition with other parties to get over 50% to form a ruling coalition.
If they don’t ally with either of the Russian-backed anti-Ukraine parties AFD (right) and BSW (left), it’ll take just about everyone else to get over 50%
It’s worse than that. The numbers I originally posted was only the exit poll. Now we have a preliminary result and it’s not looking good.
Here are the results:
Parties with less than 5% of the vote share don’t get any seats (there are exceptions but these don’t apply here, resulting in this makeup of state parliament:
You need 45 seats to have a governing majority. SPD and CDU together have only 44. There is no majority without either the fascists from the AFD or the tankies from the BSW.