After the latest election results, Dresden political scientist Hans Vorländer predicts a difficult government formation after the state elections in Saxony on September 1. The background to this is the strong performance of the AfD in the European elections on Sunday. The AfD left the CDU behind by 10 percentage points. The CDU/CSU's two coalition partners in the state - the Greens and the SPD - only achieved 5.9% and 6.9% respectively. The Sahra Wagenknecht coalition (BSW), on the other hand, achieved 12.6 percent from a standing start.
According to the current result, it cannot be assumed that the Kenya coalition will simply be able to achieve a majority in the Free State, Vorländer told the German Press Agency on Monday. "It will depend on the BSW." One even has to consider the possibility that only the AfD, the CDU and the BSW enter the state parliament, he said. "Then the CDU will have a big problem".
At the same time, Vorländer is convinced that the state election will come down more to the person of Minister President Michael Kretschmer (CDU), who has good personal ratings in the polls. "It will depend on whether he manages to pull the CDU ahead of the AfD once again." After the current result, however, there are doubts. "The AfD is a force in Saxony. It is strongly rooted and has once again asserted itself in this election. This is especially true for eastern Saxony."
