The AfD has clearly won the European elections in the Free State of Saxony. The party, which has been classified as right-wing extremist by the State Office for the Protection of the Constitution, won 31.8 percent of the vote, according to data from the state election administrator after all municipalities were counted early on Monday morning. The CDU was defeated with 21.8 percent. The Sahra Wagenknecht alliance came in with 12.6 percent, followed at some distance by the SPD (6.9), the Greens (5.9) and the Left Party (4.9).
The Saxon AfD had already emerged victorious from the 2019 elections to the European Parliament. At that time, it received 25.3 percent of the vote, while the CDU received 23.0 percent. Now the gap is even more pronounced.
AfD state leader Jörg Urban was already very satisfied after the projections for his party's nationwide result. "We have become the second strongest party in Germany." It was also good that the "eco-socialists of the Greens" had fallen dramatically.
Even in the three major cities, the Alternative for Germany dominated the European elections. In the state capital Dresden, it came in just ahead of the CDU (19.5) with 22.4 percent. It was followed by the Greens (11.9 percent) and the Sahra Wagenknecht BSW alliance with 10.6 percent. In Leipzig, the AfD won 32.6%, some way ahead of the CDU (24.8%) and the BSW (12.5%). According to preliminary results, the AfD also won the European elections in Chemnitz with 28.2 percent ahead of the CDU (20) and BSW (15.2).
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