It's election time in Saxony once again, and the political landscape is like a game of chess in which every move is decisive. While Minister President Michael Kretschmer praises the CDU as a bulwark against populists, Campact e.V. is taking a different, almost subversive approach: strategic voting to block the power of the AfD.
The fear of the AfD's veto power is not unfounded. If the party were to win more than a third of the seats in the state parliament, it could significantly hinder democratic processes. Felix Kolb from Campact e.V. paints a bleak picture on LinkedIn: an AfD with a blocking minority would not only paralyze democracy, but shake it to its very foundations.
So, what to do? Campact e.V. has forged a plan that is almost reminiscent of the tactics of a battlefield strategist. In the constituencies of Leipzig Mitte-Ost, Süd, West and Dresden Neustadt, voters are to give their first vote specifically to the candidates of the Left and the Greens. The hope: two direct mandates for each party to secure their entry into the state parliament and keep the AfD down.
