Elections: AfD in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania expects a boost

Leif-Erik Holm says the AfD’s projected landslide in Saxony-Anhalt has sent a blue wave toward Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, where the state election is only two weeks away.

Holm, the AfD’s lead candidate for minister-president, traveled to Magdeburg on election day and described the result as a turning point. "This grand success is giving us real momentum for the final two weeks of the campaign in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania," he said.

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This grand success is giving us real momentum for the final two weeks of the campaign in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.

He predicted that the party’s gains would spread from Magdeburg to Schwerin, the state capital. Holm said he wanted to end what he called the "red-red government disaster" under Minister-President Manuela Schwesig. He also described the result in Saxony-Anhalt as the deserved reckoning for what he called her decades of failure, adding that there could be no continuation of the status quo.

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The blue wave will now continue to wash from Magdeburg to Schwerin.

Preliminary projections put the AfD at 44.1% to 44.5% in Saxony-Anhalt, well ahead of the CDU at 18.5%. The Left was projected at 9.2% to 9.4%, the Greens at 8.7% to 8.9%, and the Social Democrats at 8.2% to 8.8%.

Voters in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania will elect a new state parliament on Sept. 20. Holm’s remarks frame the Saxony-Anhalt result as an opportunity to carry the AfD’s momentum into that contest.

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Red-red government disaster