On the brink of the minimum 5% needed to gain parliamentary representation was the Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance (BSW). Meanwhile, the Liberal Democratic Party barely reached 2.5% of the votes.
The party received 24.5% of the votes and doubled its support compared to the 2023 elections
On the brink of the minimum 5% needed to gain parliamentary representation was the Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance (BSW). Meanwhile, the Liberal Democratic Party barely reached 2.5% of the votes.
The far-left became the most voted force in Berlin with 24.5% of the votes in the elections held today, according to a survey released by German public television.
The result represents a strong increase for the party, which doubled its support compared to the 2023 elections and managed to surpass the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), which had been governing the city-state in coalition with the German Social Democratic Party (SPD).
The electoral result in Berlin marked a advance of the far-left in the German capital. Behind the formation was the CDU, while the right-wing party Alternative for Germany (AfD) reached third place with 16% and the Greens came in fourth with 15%.
The SPD, which had been part of the Berlin government along with the CDU, suffered a significant drop and positioned itself as the fifth political force, with 12% of the votes. Compared to 2023, the social democrats lost 6.4 percentage points.
The CDU also recorded a significant setback. The formation lost 8.2 percentage points compared to the previous elections. The Greens, for their part, ceded 3.4 points, while AfD increased its support by 6.9 points.
In parallel, AfD positioned itself as the most voted force in the elections of the state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, with 37% of the votes. The right-wing party increased by 20 percentage points and placed ahead of the SPD, which obtained 35.5%.
The social democratic formation, regionally led by president Manuela Schwesig, lost 4.1 points compared to the 2021 elections. If these results are confirmed, the SPD would cease to be the leading force in that state for the first time in 28 years.
The Left achieved 7.5%, with a drop of 2.4 points, while the Greens and the CDU each obtained 5.5%. The CDU lost 7.8 percentage points. BSW, meanwhile, again found itself on the edge of the 5% threshold.
The co-leader of AfD, Tino Chrupalla, described the result as "sensational" and stated that his party has "clearly a mandate to govern".