Daily polls are such nonsense lol. It tells you nothing other than how margin of error works.
UshiromiyaEva posted...
From what I can tell Germany is, to put it in the most basic of terms, about to be in reverse situation of France: the far right won, but in a way that's likely going to result in them not really being able to do shit.
Yes plus this is only in Thuringia. Which is a region in former-East Germany historically dominated by the ex-Communist Die Linke (literally The Left). Their vote basically collapsed going two ways to AfD and the economically left, socially conservative BSW, a splinter party of Die Linke. Its impossible to not view this through the lens of the legacy of the cold war, and sure enough both parties are pro-Russia.
Hypothetically AfD could go into a coalition with BSW but I doubt the latter would accept it. I would guess the CDU (Merkels party, centre-right) will try and govern in minority. Nationally the AfDs goal is to try and be kingmakers in a general election, they know they have next to no chance of winning the whole country but hope that the CDU will have to depend on them for votes. Of course a historical warning, Thuringia was where the Nazis had their first real victory in 1930, getting into regional government as the second largest party. Not a great state legacy.