Germany: Angela Merkel's CDU brutally overthrown in Hessen elections – 10/28/2018

The conservative party of Chancellor Angela Merkel he suffered a severe setback reaching only 28% of the votes in the regional elections of Hesse, which also marked the landing of the far right in all parliaments of the country, according to polls at the end of the polls.

According to the first forecasts of the German public television channels ARD and ZDF, support for the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) led by the German President they have fallen to their worst value of the last five decades in this state federation of West Germany, far from the 38.8% achieved in 2013.

Despite the collapse, the CDU managed to stay Sunday as the most voted party, but in the worst case scenario, it could lose the presidency of the region it has been continuously occupying since 1999.

At the same time, the far-right populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) once again took advantage of the Germans' dissatisfaction with the migration policy in Berlin, which led the country to host about 1.5 million refugees since 2015.

The party of the xenophobic and islamófobos dyes, which since September of last year sits as third force in the Parliament in Berlin -Bundestag-, managed to enter this Sunday into the only of the 16 regional chambers he needed to conquer, providing 12% of support in the region considered the financial center of Germany, with its epicenter in Frankfurt.

The other big loser of the day was, along with the CDU, the Social Democrat Party (SPD), a junior partner of Merkel's coalition government in Berlin, which achieved its worst historic result by guaranteeing only 20% votes. This is also a disappointing result compared to the 30.7% achieved five years ago.

The big winners of the evening were Los Verdes. With great euphoria, they received the electoral data which, as the polls suggested, caused a sensation with these regional elections by winning 19.5% of the vote in the heat of Tarek Al-Wazir, charismatic candidate of Arab origin that promises monopolize a big role of facing the future formation of the government in the region.

Never before in its history has the eco-pacifist party achieved such a voluminous result in this federated state. In the last elections in Hesse, the Greens had to settle for 11.1% of the vote.

As the fifth political force, according to preliminary forecasts, the FDP liberals are placed at 7.5% and finally leftist postcommunists at 6.5%.

During the last legislature, Hesse was governed by a coalition led by conservatives Merkel and Los Verdes as a junior partner. Now, with a more fragmented vote, many possible scenarios are open pending confirmation of the final results, but the CDU, despite a considerable loss of support, hopes to re-launch the alliance with the eco-pacifist training.

The elections in Hesse, a region where barely 7.5% of the German population live, have been followed with a lot of attention throughout the country for the impact they could have on the government. coalition between conservatives and SPD. National level.

Analysts have said in recent days that severe punishment by the CDU and the SPD at the polls could provoke a premature break-up of executive power in Berlin or even precipitate Merkel's political farewells.

Source: DPA