As expected, Alternative fur Deutschland (AfD) won in Thuringia with nearly 33% of the vote, and came second in Saxony with almost 31%. For the first time since the second world war, a far-right party has become a significant political force in Germany.
In both states, this will require the centre-right party to build complex alliances with two or three leftwing parties. Even if it's difficult to justify from a purely democratic point of view, there are good reasons to maintain the Brandmauer (firewall) around the AfD.
In Thuringia, nearly half of voters opted either for the AfD or for another new party, the pro-Russian Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance (BSW), which stands left on economic issues and right on immigration.
Chancellor Olaf Scholz of the centre-left Social Democratic party (SPD) has demanded, is a strategy to build stable governments without rightwing extremists.
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