Mecklenburg election: Schwesig campaigns as the “woman against blue”

After the AfD’s election victory in Saxony-Anhalt, Manuela Schwesig is sharpening the SPD’s campaign in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. The state premier and SPD lead candidate presented a new poster in Schwerin with the slogan “The woman against blue.”

Schwesig said 60 percent of people in the state still wanted her to remain minister-president. Anyone who wanted that outcome, she said, had to vote for the SPD. She urged voters to cast both of their ballots for the party.

The campaign is focused on stopping the AfD from becoming the strongest force in the state, as it did in Saxony-Anhalt. Current polls also put the AfD ahead in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, although the party remains far from an absolute majority. The SPD has recently reduced the gap.

Schwesig warned that an AfD victory on September 20 could leave the state with difficult governing conditions. She said Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania risked becoming trapped in a political stalemate because the AfD was not prepared to take responsibility or approach other parties about forming a government. She also pointed to the AfD’s call for new elections in Magdeburg on election night after it failed to win an absolute majority.

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The woman against blue