Elections
Scholz Heading for Another Election Rout in Eastern Germany
- Ruling parties were trounced in the former communist regions
- Three states where AfD is strongest force vote in September
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Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s ruling coalition looks to be on course for another drubbing in September when elections are held in three eastern regions where the far-right Alternative for Germany is the strongest party.
As well as slumping to their worst ever result in a national vote on 13.9%, Scholz’s Social Democrats were hammered in the former communist east in Sunday’s European Parliament election. Voters in Saxony and Thuringia go to the polls on Sept. 1, before Brandenburg — the region that surrounds the capital Berlin — holds its election three weeks later.