Germany's Historic Election Results Explained
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- Опубликовано: 27 сен 2024
- Germany's Brandenburg's SHOCK Results! 🔥 The ruling coalition faces MAJOR setbacks, but there's a twist you won't see coming! Is this the beginning of the end for Chancellor Scholz? 🇩🇪👀 This video will explaing what this means for Germany's future!
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The SPD in Brandenburg didn't win because of Scholz but despite of Scholz.
It is a saying if it isn't broken then don't fix it.
🎉😂
SPD won because voters of the Left and the Greens voted them and in the process they were both cut out. I would call that Pyrrhic victory in spades.
No the left immigrated almost entirely to the BSW.Tje SPD absorbed more of the cdu
Scholz‘s Comeback?
Woidke refused any appearance of Scholz in SPD‘s Brandenburg. The SPD got good results in Brandenburg despite Scholz‘s lack of popularity.
Local elections are NOT a voting on the popularity of the federal administration.
im from brandenburg. you are 100% spitting the facts.
in some federal states they are, in others they are less so. NRW Landtagswahl is very much a kleine Bundestagswahl. Brandenburg has always been way different and continues to be a peculiar state among the east german states, with demographics being wildly different from the rest of the east (and the whole of Brandenburg becoming more and more of a suburbia for Berlin).
@@ithemba There are political topics decided on the federal level and there are political topics to be decided in the Landtage.
Of course those elections are important but a federal administration shouldn't be judged based on Landtagswahlen.
@@mahuhude but political trends from the federal level very much do trickle down into Landtagswahlen. As I said, in some states more than others. The vast majority of german voters has no idea about policy being decided in their Landtag and know maybe the MP and one or two other members of the Landesregierung tops.
And centrists that would normally vote cdu voted spd just to block afd , but that is never sustainable in the long term
Actually this election system is very good! It seems very fair.
I think so too, but now all the AfD voters are crying and claiming the elections were fraudulent because they believe that everyone in Germany thinks like them.
Many of them don't understand the AfD's election program and don't see that the program is bad for the average citizen and when you read the election program to them, they say it's fake news xD
if you like it, look at the system in the federal state of Hamburg. It has direct election districts with 3-5 parliament seats. So smaller parties can grab also directly elected parliament seats. The balancing between proportional vote and direct candidate vote is less a hassle that way.
I love how it explains why people voted for SPD and then for AFD.
People voted for AFD to support their ideas, then people voted SPD to cockblock AFD.
It just looks hilarious, like did SPD had any program to begin with or you just cut it out to AFD program?
I saw that too... 'Protestwähler' has gotten a whole new meaning.
It shows how thin the arguments are on behalf of the SPD. This is remarkable, since they are in power and could simply deal with perceived problems. Action would speak for itself....
just a few examples: Massive building programs for housing and infrastucture would be a classic SPD action (lending money to spark economic growth), reducing regulations on local and federal level, compulsory language courses and tests (directly connected to payments, work permits, residency status), positive incentives for change instead of negative incentives (where are the electric charging stations needed? Same idea as mentioned above regarding building programs), giving schools the tools to ensure discipline (no, not Prügelstrafe... but why can't constant troublemakers parents be fined for the destructive behaviour of their kids by the schools themselves without lengthy trials?... out of the box, but why not?), Reformation of the legal system and quicker trials (young people with multiple convictions of violent crimes should be tried within days and not get more and more opportunities for mischief), reducing criminal age to 12, ... all these things could be done without being undemocratic, racist, fascist or whatever. Some are actually classical leftist policies.
Historic. With AfD at 29%.
Afd cringe
@@dylancoykendall554 I bet your nose is really big and you like to rub your hands together like a fly
@@dylancoykendall554what makes Afd cringe dude ?
@@dylancoykendall554you wanna have more illegal Muslim immigrants?
@@kenzo1091apparently it’s cringe to love your Homeland, and your people.
SPD barely won lol
Imagine the Greens getting bashed by all sides and then losing votes in an election, who could've thought. 🤷♂
imagine that people voting green are proportionally from the better educated part of society. They tactically voted.
And the Green bashing is one of the stupist things in this country. They are right in their analysis. Get through nearly all political fields and their science and statistics based approach is right. If their solution is optimal can be discussed. But all the other parties have a competition running about not changing anything.
Why do so many people in the comments not understand addition?
maybe i should have explained it better :D
You combat the AfD not by forming hair-brained coalitions, but by listening to the reasons people vote for them and giving them at least some of what they want. You have to govern the whole country, and that includes people who want things that you might not, ignore them, and they'll move to the extremes. I fear this lesson won't be learned in time.
Germanies coalition has actually become much more anti-immigration. Yet this has actually lead the AfD to gain because these voters dont vote on policy but their percieve anti-establishment credentials. If anything it has only hurt their base which is now also less likely to vote for them.
No, absolutely not. This "listening to the concerned citizens" is what brought us into this mess. When other parties try to do something like that, it only validates and strengthens the AfD. This is downward spiral into right extremism, and that is what we are experiencing right now. What you should instead do is to ignore them, follow your plan, modernise the country, create opportunities and the problem will fix itself.
@@MarcSiegert 😂 That strategy failed completely in other countries.... better to cooperate and force afd to change their worst positions in exchange for some power
@@MarcSiegertThis will be a long one because I want you to think about this.
Yes - political parties need to argue and try to convince people of their views, but they must do so with open visor. I remember very well how party officials and subsequently state financed media handled the silvester incidents (eine Armlänge, passiert auf jedem Okoberfest, etc.) and the denial that took place regarding gender and age distribution of the refugees (young males vastly overrepresented) as well as their primary migration motives (making money) and subsequently the logical implications that follow... until this year. The only party that openly adressed this from the beginning was the AfD.
Immigration, as it has been taking place in Germany, is (rightfully or not) perceived as 'the mother of all troubles' by large parts of the population. One may argue against that... but that has barely been done. Instead it was simply denied that immigration had anything to do with any problem Germany is facing such as lack of housing, deteriorating education system, violent crimes, massive spendings on social welfare, ... to name a few. Denial does not substitute arguments. Denouncement does not convince the denounced.
The AfD would not be as strong had the ruling parties not opted to simply denounce public perception as faulty (or worse) instead of taking care of the problems associated with immigration by many. -> i.e. where are the millions of new appartements needed? ...
.....,.
...and this is just about that crucial one... there are more issues, that add up to it-> cum-ex as standout example for massive corruption amongst the political elite, complete incompetence on highest levels (prime examples being ministry of health and until recently the ministry of defense), handling of Covid 19 (Arroganz der Macht), media policy/GEZ, perceived lenient handling of criminals vs strict enforcement of slights, people living better on social welfare (plus some illegal activity) than the working poor ... ... all this sums up to a perception of them up there against us down here and a feeling of a highly unjust society. I have a mixed circle of friends - all who are in blue collar jobs sympathize with AfD positions... ( they may not vote them, I won t either.. but I see why they gain. They adress something real - they promise change. That is enough for many voters)
sorry for my awkward style... hope to get my point across. nice day 8:24
@@MarcSiegert yknow, i think youre right. right wing extremism is actually when the government listens to the people, and democracy is when the government hates a a fifth of its native population so much that its unwilling to cooperate with them in any way at all. btw, i like the "modernise" euphamism there. Does that mean extermination, or just plain old re-education?
In Hungary we have a similar system, and I think this German method is the best. The district are directly represented, and give the major winner a plus weight, while the list mandates ensure, that the minor parties also receive some seats. Counterexamples: Great Britain, where Labour won almost two third of the seats with 1/3 of popularity; or Netherland, where it is very hard to make coalitions due to many parties.
Hungary does not have the German system. In Hungary the party list doesn't compensate the smaller parties and bigger parties that already have FPTP seats get even more porportional seats.
Best system would be Netherlands, except with no threshold +party members get to vote for the candidates prior to the election, with members getting 1 vote each.
Thanks!
Thank you ! ❤️
If the centre parties fail to act on the needs and wants of the people, the people will inevitably vote further left and right until the government listens.
And they continue to vote far-left and far-right until our demise.
@@DGAMINGEN Sadly that's very true.
@@DGAMINGENGermany hasn't had a party with the ideas of AFD since the 90's/ early 2000's.
Scholz's comeback it says 😂😂😂
I find foreign political structures fascinating, so thanks for sharing!
The way they structure their government is very fascinating, and I especially like the two vote election system where the second vote is for the party and not any individual candidate
Can someone explain why SPD received in proportional vote 13 seats(with 30 percent), while the AFD only 5(with 29 percent)? Didn’t really understand how it works.
The system may be biased to stop AFD 😅😅 . Just Kidding 😅
The table cannot properly capture how this thing works.
29.2% is 30 seats and 30.9% is 32 seats. AfD already got 25 seats from the first vote, so they got 5 extra. Meanwhile, SPD got 19 seats from the 1st vote, which gave them 13 more seats.
SPD = 19 + 13 = 32 (30.9%)
AfD = 25 + 5 = 30 (29.2%)
BSW = 0 + 14 = 14 (13.5%)
and so on
The 2nd vote determines the overall proportion and the 1st vote determines which person gets directly elected.
He literally explained it in the video.
@@retrictumrectus1010 thank you
@@MellonVegan If I understood from his explanation, I wouldn’t have wrote the comment… genius.
You could at least add a time stomp for other people too(maybe they didn’t notice).
Note that the premier of Saxony, Michael Kretschmer (CDU) who recently just had their election on September 1st endorsed the SPD on September 15th on an anti-AFD ticket. If we were to look at the polls, that seemed to have move 3-4 points away from the CDU to the SPD.
How did that go over with the Federal leadership of the party? I would imagine they wouldn't be on board with that considering the CDU was running.
@@Edmuresrampantmanhood-dp3jd Given that Kretschmer is one of the Deputy Leaders of the CDU, I can't imagine he did not tell someone on the Federal Leadership about it. That being said, Redmann, the chair of Brandenburg CDU was not happy about it.
Forming huge coalitions of widely different parties might work in the short term, but at some point the AfD will start getting absolute majorities by getting more votes from those governments’ incompetence
We would be happier with Boris Pistorius (our defence minister) to be the candidat for the SPD then Scholz. He is the only defence minister who didnt f**k things up and doesnt have brain issues. Its so sad to see the state of Germany.
Bruh, it's not a difficult job, especially if you get 100 billion dollars, despite our economy crumbling.
Damn, this pistorius guy really turned his life around after unaliving his girlfriend
@@fedyx1544wait what
@@ninototo1it's a joke about the athlete oscar pistorius
@@Agomacule Thanks
Thx for the coverage
Question: How are the representatives of the proportional vote chosen?
Thanks for the explanation of the German federal system.
Overall a good video, just some points to add.
As you figured out, the victory for the SPD was because of Dietmar Woidke and the wish to have a party to win against the AfD, not because everybody loves the SPD. Iam also not completely sure how much this success of the SPD will help Olaf Scholz, because Woidke didnt want Scholz to participate in the Brandenburg election campaign. After all of this, the campaign without Scholz seems to be more succesfull, and Scholz also lives in theBrandenburg capitol Potsdam, so he was also a voter in this election.
Another important point to talk about, are the percentages. If you count the 4 parties who will be in the parliament, then you see they having around 85%. So whats with the other 15%?
In Brandenburg there are two ways for a party to get into the parliament.
The first one ist to get at least 5% of the 2nd votes.
The second one is to get one of the 1st votes (direct mandate), then the percentages from the second voted will counted proportionate.
So the 15% are the parties who failed both, not 5% and no direct mandate from 1st votes.
But what happens now with the missing 15%?
These 15% will be split proportionate to the parties who successfully went into the parliament.
Means in the end the parties who were successfull also getting rewarded on top.
Its because otherwise 85% from 88 seats would result into only around 75 seats would be occupied.
So after thinking about that, many people in Brandenburg and Saxony wanted to vote "tactical'" against the far right AfD.
To add something - I grew up in Brandenburg and now living in Saxony, so Iam all in into these two elections.
Both - the CDU in Saxony and the SPD in Brandenburg, which both having the function of minister president in their federal state,
told everybody its just between them and the far right AfD and it tactical to vote CDU in Saxony and SPD in Brandenburg to prevent
the AfD becoming the strongest party in parliament.
Iam sorry to say but thats just bullshit in my opinion.
That only leads to the result, that smaller parties maybe dont make it into the parliament and giving many % away, also to the far right AfD.
In Saxony you having the same election rules as in Brandenburg, with one addition - you need two direct mandates (1st vote winners) instead of only one.
Thats the reason why the left-wing party "Die Linke" made it into the parliament, they won 2 direct mandates from the first votes in Leipzig.
Otherwise they would be out, because the only got 4,5% of the needed 5%.
Nearly the same with our green party "Bündnis90/Die Grünen". They got 2 direct mandates - one in Leipzig, one in Dresden, so that they are in.
They didnt needed the first vote direct mandates in the end, because they got 5,1% of the needed 5% but it seemed like they would be below 5% for long time while counting the votes.
This leads to the point that in Saxoy we still having 6 parties in the parliament and only around 9% to divide from the parties which didnt made it in.
In Brandenburg the opposite happend.
The left-wind party "Die Linke" (3%) and the green party "Bündnis90/Die Grünen" (4,1%) were not successfull in reaching the 5% and nobody won a direct mandate from the firste votes besides the SPD and the AfD, so they also failed to get in with the direct mandate rule.
There was also another party "BVB/Freie Wähler" - they are a liberal-conversative party which was part of the last parliaments.
They won 2014 and 2019 a direct mandate (first votes) and managed to get in. In 2019 they even reached the 5% of the 2nd votes.
All 3 of them are out now.
Tactical election would be to try to get more of them to 5% or to try to get them a direct mandate.
This would have had helped the winnig party to have more possibility to form a government and the AfD would have gotten a far lower share from the parties who didnt made it in.
Ah and to add another point: the FDP ("liberal party" - but more liberal-conversative) was nether a big thing in eastern Germany, even if they are part of the national government at the moment.
Iam not sure what to think about the 3 elections in Brandenburg, Saxony and Thuringia.
Its shocking how many people voting the AfD even if its known that their federal parties in the 3 named federal states are proved far-right extremists, even the candidates in Thuringia and Brandenburg are proved far-right extremists.....
We shouldnt forget that also many topics were related to national government topics.
The biggest topics in the Brandenburg election were social safety (20%), economical development (19%), migration/refugees (17%), education (12% - Brandenburg is ranked low in the federal state comparison. Each federal state can do their own education program and many people want to have the same education plan in whole Germany (89% in 2020)), criminality/inner safety (12%), climate protection (9%) and the Russian war in Ukraine (9%).
Many people are disappointed in east Germany about the national government (SPD, FDP, Bündnis90/Die Grünen). Also many remember ther 16 years of Merkel (CDU) and are still disappointed. Then there are already 4 "big parties" out. The left-wing party "Die Linke" was once strong in Germany but their internal affairs ruining their party at the moment. The secession of the BSW from Die Linke also made it more difficult, espacially if the secession party BSW was very successfull in each of the 3 elections.
Talking about the BSW, we dont really know what they want at all. Its a new party, doesnt even exist for a year now and got that much success.
Till now we only know that they want strong restriction in terms of refugees and they want to cancel the help for Ukraine, especially the military one.
Its also like a one (wo-)man show with Sarah Wagenknecht (love to call her Zarenknecht), the federal BSW parties dont even having 100 members and the ones who are in came from like every party (exception AfD as much as I know). So so political line is the line of the one person - Sarah Wagenknecht.
If you hear them talking about the Russian war, you will become sick! Its like she repeats Putin and it scares me that she gained that much strength.
But to be honest, she is a charismatic person, but hearing her say dumb stuff, knowing that she is intelligent enough to know that what she says is bullshit makes it even harder.
At least the BSW was the answer if you was disappointed with the existing older parties and you didnt wanted to vote the far-right AfD.
But in the end they only had the two topics refugees and Russian war which both cant be solved by a federal state government...
These 3 election were the last ones, with the exception of the city-state Hamburg, till the next national election for whole Germany.
To see that all parties in the Bundestag (national level government) integrate phrases from the AfD, in the hope to get some voters from them makes me sad (exception the left-wing "Die Linke" but they having internal problems as already said).
Also that they keep saying, "Die Parteien der Mitte / Die Parteien des demokratischen Spektrums" - the parties of the political center / the parties of democratic spectrum which includes CDU, SPD, FDP, the green party and some count them in, some out - the left-wing "Die Linke" against the AfD.
I also want to add that there isnt a big "party-binding" in eastern Germany. If you are a 70 year old man or woman, then you only know the "western parties" since a bit more than 30 years. Before hat, there was the socialist dictatorship of the SED. So the voters also tend to change the party they want to vote. So if they think the party they elected did a bad job, then they will try another party in the next election. There are other effects in western Germany - there a 70 years old person already know at least the SPD, CDU and FDP for their whole life and many stick to one party since many many many years, doesnt mind if they do good or bad in their opinions. But thats especially a phenomenon for the older people.
And now instead of the parties solving problems they keep saying, we need to fight the far-right or the problems with education, rooming and more only appeared because of refugees is bullshit.
The people arent interested in major morality, they are interested in fixing existing problems.
The refugess/migration quastion is a big one since 9 years now and its still not solved.
The infrastructure is desolate in many parts of Germany.
The prices for rooming in cities cant be payed.
The wish for many people to own an own little house is also nearly impossible at the moment, its far too expensive - you will need to work your whole life off if you want to buy one, especially in more populated areas. A big point here are taxes and increased prices for building materials.
The digitalisation is not really here - government offices say their processes are digital if you can request something online and then they print everything out and then putting it into a folder and answer with a letter instead of an email or a online-portal for the answers.
Also we pay the the highest prices for the fewest performance to get internet access. There fiber-cable building up is also way way way too slow - you pay over 40€ for 50Mbit/s download...
Additional, like every office application takes longer than building pyramids in Egypt, if you can get an appointmant at all.
Prices for food increased, taxes on staple foods even increases them more.
The transformation from the economy and the electricity to renewable energy is way too slow.
The quesation of climate protection is also very difficult, because the parties before slept on invest into renewables and climate friendly building and prefered to give the money to the fossil ressourece companies. That lead the national government party of "Die Grünen" (green party) to want to make very quick changes but most of the people cant afford them, they just dont have enough money for quick and radical changes... that lead to a huge decrease in the popularity of the green party, alongside the eternal conflicts in the government coalition.
The question about public trafic, especially the train situationm with the DB is horrible. Many trains are too late and sometimes you are happy if the trains arrives at all and on top of this great service they make the ticket prices more expensive for like every year...
These are all topics the people want to get solved.
Many arent interesed in moral debates - they just want change, so they seek for somebody who promises this to them, even if they cant really solve the problems...
The future will show which way the federal states and the whole country will walk on.
What if a party gets no second votes but party candidates win 1st vote in some places? Will they be taken away?
If you win a constitency during the 1st votes, that seat is ensured even if you don't get votes in 2nd vote or pass the threshold
regional elections*, not local
I’m a little confused, AfD won in 25 direct mandates while SPD wins in 19 and then AfD gets a little less than 2% less of the 2nd vote than SPD but only gets 5 seats while SPD gets 13? How is that fair, would appreciate an explanation.
The direct constituency is meant to ensure that local voices get represented, its not meant to be a form of proportionality, so once constituency votes are elected, the rest of the seats are distributed by the vote of the state, ie the Brandenburg one rather than the constituency one. Since SPD won in %, the seats are distributed so that proportionality is clear.
What happens if there is no coolition between SPD & BSW? Or more specifically if there is no coolition at all?
2:48 if 13 seats is 30.9%, then 14 seats is 13.5% and 5 seats is 29.2%? Sorry I’m slow learner. This does not add up to me
The seats of the 1st are taken in consideration to balance everything out if you look at the final seat count you see that everything adds up accordingly. The system Is very complicated to ensure fairness. If you are interested in how that works watch some other videos over German election system. Thank you for asking it is important to ask important questions too protect democracy.
@@melonentypdersaftige8446 Thank you! I will try to do some research.
System is rigged so that right parties don’t win. And to ensure only left fascists like SPD can win.
@@kunalkarjee8134 It's only objectively rigged for the parties under 5%.
30.9÷(30.9+29.2+13.5+12.1)×88≈31.7 seats
29.2÷(30.9+29.2+13.5+12.1)×88≈29.8 seats
13.5÷(30.9+29.2+13.5+12.1)×88≈13.9 seats
12.1÷(30.9+29.2+13.5+12.1)×88≈12.4 seats
SPD-BSW coalition is maybe possible.
BSW is syncretic and big tent.
possibly? according to my calculations it is necessary, it is the only way for the SPD to get a majority
Another cordon sanitare? It will only postpone the problem unless something is done by the governing parties to appease the AfD voter base to make them stop voting AfD. A certain issue which plagues Europe.
What are you talking about? The BSW is a Neo-Stalinist / National Bolshevik party.
@@Hardcore_Remixer BSW is anti-immigration so they have that opportunity. I doubt SPD will take it though.
@@Hardcore_Remixer In Denmark the Danish equivalent of the AfD, the DF gained power in 2001 over 20 years ago, when they joined a government coalition of the old conservative and liberal party. The social democrats were only able to gain power back in 2019 when the social democratic PM decided to abandon their long held opposition to nationalist ideas and incorporate them into their platform
Didn't know that getting to know elections news about 🗣️bRRRRRanderburg would be that interesting!! Nice video
Federal system nicely explained. Thanks.
The strategic voting for SPD to stop an AfD win by partially Grüne voters turned out to be a bad idea for them, as it resulted in the greens falling short of entering the parliament. As a result, AfD managed to win ⅓ of the seats, which allows them to block important decisions.
You never said that Woidke did not allow Scholz to join him on any event. Shity leader kill partys. as usual
If I am the one making the table, to help those who do not know better, I would put the 2nd vote on the first column, and then the total seat won on the second column, and then an equal sign, and then the 1st vote seats and then the "extra seats" or "remaining seats". I wont call the "extra seats" "2nd vote seats". It makes things less confusing.
But maybe this may not work at specific cases.
Of course I can’t blame the CDU for their loose migration policies or their blind reliance on Russian gas, can I ?
From what I have heard, the SPD may have it where they will have a possible close margin of victory. The SPD will likely lose some seats, but retain the 1st position in numbers. In 2025, their will likely be a different prime minister that will replace Scholz given his lack of popularity by voters and his own party members. The I do believe Germany will move more center right in politics like France.
The difficult political landscape makes easy answers very attractive. So the opposition and extreme parties are profiting strongly, which can be seen all over Europe. In the end everyone is playing the media game, the media who overly reported on migration topics rather than focusing on actual problems and politicans who have been influenced through lobbies so that people don't feel represented anymore and finally voters who believe that its worth it that history repeats itself for some weird lesson they want to teach the politicans.
Everyone in Germany hates him
No
@@nettcologne9186 I voted for him and regret it now.
32% dont, as shown in the video at 3:31... And the other 68% dont hate him. We could have a much worse chancellor (Friedrich Merz...)
I wish Germany had a more pro Ukraine right wing party like Swedens Swedish Democrats.
Swedens should pay support for Ukraine alone. Swedish tax money goes to Ukraine....
@@XY-uc1tw I love supporting a democracy against a imperialist warmongering bastard like putin. We can use the money we spend on migrants to help Ukraine instead.
It's called the CDU.Also stop using my tax dollars for Ukraine
@@triceratops7084 CDU cannot be compared to the Sweden democrats
@@gideonwlindDepends... CSU is part of CDU. Also CDU with its right wing free voters alliance is very close to AfD.
IT is always the conservatives paving the way for the radical right.
I support Ukraine but unlike Ukraine I would not follow the "the enemy of my enemy is my friend policy" as it fuels russian propaganda and may harm support of the liberals everywhere.
If scholz wants an comback he needs to make the döner for 2€
After the elections in Thuringia, Saxony and Brandenburg, Scholz is in a worse situation than ever. The dispute is increasing in his coalition because his party and that of his coalition partners were largely defeated in the elections. In Brandenburg, the SPD now has to cooperate with Sarah Wagenknecht's left-wing populist party.
Why AfD got only 5 seats on the 2nd vote? On the example? Math doesn’t make sense.
The direct constituency is meant to ensure that local voices get represented, its not meant to be a form of proportionality, so once constituency votes are elected, the rest of the seats are distributed by the vote of the state, ie the Brandenburg one rather than the constituency one. Since SPD won in %, the seats are distributed so that proportionality is clear
AfD won more direct constituencies, however in actual vote, SPD had more votes which is why SPD was given more.
Comeback? Which comeback??? 😂😂 Social Democrats have been rulng the Federal State of Brandenburg for 28 years. MP Woidke is rather popular, and Brandenburg is the only boom region hete.He gathered a lot of votes from other traditional parties which he cannibalized: Greens, Conservatives, Liberals. Out of 8 parties actually represented and many more competing across the whole country, only four made it into the regional Brandenburg Parliament.
Scholz' government is as weak as it was before, Woidke's SPD is in small advance over AfD. Liberals and Greens who are part of his gov will try to distinguish themselves and will start to bitch around, while sociodemodrats will start to throw money out of the windows by stupid subsidies programs, like they always do.
Just wait and see ... But things have changed in this country.
Anyone calling AfD "far right" doesnt know what that even means. Might as well call CDU in the 90s far right. And not calling BSW "far left" or "communist" is showing this channels biases even further.
CORRECT, THERE VERY EXISTENCE IS ALREADY SAVING GERMANY
far right supporters aleways say they are not far right. You probably do not support lgbt, women or human rights at all and are a nationalist xenophobe.
@@catcatcattac-d7c and left wingers make a lot of assumptions. also don't you mean lgbtqia+maxpro
@@stevenobinator2229wow, i have heard this few times before… wait is this 1930 all over again?
@@karliszemitis3356 They arent nazis, they will talk to everyone and make compromises. Youve been brainwashed, think for yourself. Meloni was label mussolini, now she's way less extreme. Come on
These elections are so disappointing. So close, AFD is so close to winning. Its ok tho, hopefully they'll have better luck next time
the whole election was a yes or no to the AFD many old people I voted SPD who otherwise don't vote Go
Germany and the entire world tbh needs something like the 'new deal' in 1930s US
Not surprised.
5% threshold for an assembly with 90 seats is absurd.
Historic???? Germany made simple
Wow rhat came out quick haha! :)
Tired now hahah.
Scholz???😵💫🤢🤮🤮🤮🤮
Commenters, can you stop whining about people calling the (insert party) far-(insert direction)...
For Five Seconds???
You do realise that AfD is THEY far right party.
If you start glorifying the nazi regime you are on the wrong side of history.
@@MijnAfspeellijst1234 They are not Far-Right and if they would glorify the nazi regime, then they would be Far-Left socialists.
The landes dont have any influence on military policy right? So why would the BSW and SPD disagreement on Ukraine be a problem? The only disagreements I can imagine is the building of migrant centers/housing and climate policy
good question. BSW is pro Russia in general, so maybe there are some domestic policies they could implement.
Two criticisms regarding your video:
1) Half of it is almost a word for word copy of your previous Germany video, down to the jokes. That's not good for repeat viewer engagement.
2) When you talk about the far right AfD and its officially branded extremist leader in Brandenburg you do not include any context of what makes the party "far" right or why the leader got deemed extremist by the courts, making the party seem far more normal and leaving open a lot of space to speculate that the verdict might have been an unfair one by overzealous liberal courts.
if the so called "extremists" got 29.2% popular vote, I would say that about 1/3 of the electorate think it's an unfair verdict
Your pronunciation of Spree is a bit off.
I think all these German videos call for a new channel : "Germany Made Simple" channel hahaha
This was no win for Scholz especially BC woidke didn't allow him to show up in Brandenburg to support him BC he is to unpopular
You try that system in third world and you will find states declare breakaway within a year or two 😅😅
That's what the CSU is for. It is like the CDU but for Bavaria.
"each of these Länder"
Singulars exist...
How with 29.5 % vote just get 5 seat and with 13.5 % vote get more seat
they get the number of seats to match the % of the votes in the 2nd vote. the 1st vote is just to pick specific candidates. they didn't get 5 seats, they got 30 seats total with 29,5% of the votes, the other party got 14 seats total with 13.5%.
I don't understand it either. If second vote is proportional, where is the proportionality in this?
You guys didn't listen. You add the right column to the left...
He even said so in the video.
SPD 19+13 seats = 32 seats
AfD 25+5 = 30
BSW 14
CDU 12
The first vote really doesn't matter, no one gives a sh*t. The reason it is split up in the graphic is bc direct mandate seats are handed out first, then seats for people from party lists get added until the distribution of the 2nd vote is reached. I honestly think this system has more flaws than benefits. Just the bureaucratic cost associated with having so many representatives in the country..
@steamedchannelmmm As the video explained, the second vote determines the percentage of seats a party will get in total. The seats gained via winning local elections (1st vote) are not added, but included in that number. The remaining seats allocated to a party are then 'filled up' from a list pre-determined by the party in question (labelled here as '2nd vote seats'). If you add the two, you will notice that the percentages add up.
Voting for AfD on a local or state level makes even less sense since their main policy areas can only be acted upon on a federal level.
Stated policy is not that important. The importance is voting people who are aligned with your own beliefs. Friend-Enemy distinction as Carl Schmitt described it.
Deportation is a state issue. So are many other immigration related topics
It always makes sense to vote for the party you are more ideologically aligned with... what kind of reasoning is that?😅
6:08 ok so it's 5% at least required for getting seats, but these four parties that fell short could potentially have won a couple of mandates through 1st vote seats? If they were largest parties in a singular voting districts? Not that it's likely but still interesting.
It was actually expected for some of them to have gotten it. In fact, I believe two of them had gotten first in constituencies in the last Brandenburg election
Is there a german citizen/voter who can explain to me why "normal" people vote for AfD and not for CDU or BSW?
because we are tired of undesirables flooding our country
You might ask someone from Austria...
Because AFD is the only party that is for both national sovereignty and the free market. CDU is for strong EU influence and investing heavily in Ukraine. BSV is not a free market friend. Thus with AFD you get both of these areas checked.
The AfD is populist. They promise that everything will get better by setting up scapegoats and blaming policies/parties or people. This is why they are obviously way more voted in the poorer east than in the west. Just like how the left party used to be very popular in the East. Poorer people want their problems solved and will quickly follow a strong figurehead who blamed someone (immigrants rn btw). Another reason is that the current german government is terrible. Bad policies most of the time, not putting Germany first etc. Bunch of factors. So overall : because they value the promise of better conditions for themselves more than the laws in place that the AfD want to remove. While unimaginable for a majority of Germans to vote the AfD we need to remember every voter is a person who had their reasons.
Normal ≠ BSW
Is there a center-left party with support to Ukraine?
SPD
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A system where you have to vote for one big party (e.g. SPD) just to avoid the other big party (e.g. AfD) is completely rubbish.
The 5% threshold leads to extremes instead of compromises.
Austerity, Chinese ane Russian reliance and conservative economics has ruined Germany
Lol Chinese and Russia reliance helped Germany to overcome 2008 crisis and remain top EU economy. Without cheap Russia energy and Chinese market to sell Germany would ve been in decline since 2010 to this day.
Germany was ruined by dependence on the United States
I’m glad the SPD prevented Germany from going back to 1933.
I too like to call all my right wing opponents funny mustache men. Much logical🙂↕️
for now....
@@baumholderh8425no one is calling CDU Nazis… people are talking about the AFD which has endorsed fascist policies and authoritarianism. They literally run on bigotry. They use one issue and exaggerate to ignite hatred, fear, and division to lie people into submission. That’s what the Nazis did…
@@kf8228 Is this even true?
@@IsomerSoma The reason people vote for faaaaar right' parties is that only these parties are promissing to put the gloves off and crack down on illeagle im*igration.
The long term solution to stop the 'faaaar right' surge from becoming uncontrollable is to have the less radical parties take this measure themselves and to do it properly.
Afd❤
32% support for Sholtz is not that bad considering he only got 26% of the vote in the last federal election. While it would be catastrophic in a two-party system, it's not unusual in a multi-party system.
Man is glazing spd so hard my screen is wet
Far-right?
Yes?
@@VillaDish Are they nazi's?
I didn't understand the part in 2:30...can you explain it again
Its a system used to try to ensure small parties from specific constituencies get representation. First each constituency sends a seat decided by the most voted candidate of that constituency through the 1st type of vote. Then, with the remaining seats of parliament, they look at the proportional representation that they would receive from the 2nd vote and match it. This way they ensure direct representation with still proportionality. I hope that explains it!
The AFD won most of the direct votes. The SPD won most of the party votes. Every candidate that wins the direct vote is going into the parliament. But the seats in parliament have to be split between the parties like the result of the party votes. So the SPD and others get additional seats to reach that goal.
AfD is strong!
Let me tell you as a German living in Brandenburg who voted for the SPD, that the SPD didn't win because of Scholz and the policies of the traffic light coalition, but because Minister President Woidke deliberately avoided any appearances with Scholz and any association with his policies. The SPD would do well not to see this "strong" election result as an endorsement of their own policies, but for what it really is: a rallying of support from all sides to prevent the AfD from becoming the strongest party in Brandenburg, because right-wing extremists should not come to power. I am extremely dissatisfied with the current policies, but I cannot vote for right-wing extremists and idiots like the AfD and BSW.
In state elections, the focus should be on state policies and not on federal politics, but unfortunately, many people cannot separate the two and vote solely based on federal politics.
He stopped warmongerin and wants a diplomatic solution in Ukraine. That is why he won Brandenburg.
In my opinion it was a shame that BVB didn't get a constituency. I was hoping for an SPD BVB CDU coalition. SPD CDU were only 1 seat away from forming coalition! Truly a shame :/
Germany is a gong show
On one end I wish AFD and BSW would put aside their economical views and make compromise for the greater good, however BSW is essentially forcing the the “mainstream” parties to work with them, and through this we’ll never the less get some of AFD’s social policies.
Afd is scary, but! Democracy is democracy. The peoples will must be protected.
The germans never learn😅
Auslander Raus💪🏻🇩🇪
You go first.
@@Dan-kr9bm We are the natives.
@@radicalesotericcentrist Are you? He most certainly isn't.
Nazis raus.
@@Dan-kr9bm Cuck
Wasn´t this system tailored by the western allies for the Bundesrepublik Deutschland ( the occupation zones of the western allies)after the disastrous World War 2?
No, the system was developed from the lessons of the Weimar Republic (1918 - 1933)
Bullshit title
Spree is pronounced “Spray”
Can someone name a good thing about every party in this comment please :/
Really Germany?! "AFD" Again?! That didn't go well last time, did it.
Let's be honest, Nazis and Afd are not the same thing and people who claim that they're same are ignorant people who closes eyes to illegal migration crisis. None of the greens or sdp wants to find a solution for migration crisis therefore media agencies blame afd for being nazi while there is a no clear evidence on it.
Hi guys, This is Germany speaking: Mind correct English spelling of title, where is one s too many: If at all, it should read "Scholz´ ... Results".
It shouldn't be controversial to oppose more military aid to Ukraine. They are losing and aren't going to get a better deal.
Scholz need to call for reelection.
Otherwise he’s not a democrat.
He’s popularity is a joke.
Everybody wants Friedrich Merz! ❤️❤️🔥👑🤴🏻
I hate that capitalist parties are labeled as far right now
It feels like anything that isn't left-leaning is considered far right since the last few years. While Leftextremist ideologies like Marxism and other forms of authoritarian Communism and even Anarchism are suddenly ok and nothing to be worried about.
Universities have become breeding-grounds for Leftextremists, those radicalised Students moved up into Politics in recent years and moved the bar further and further to the left. Legends like Chancellor Helmut Schmidt (SPD), are considered far-right by many of them today.
The AfD did win in Thuringia for the first time. Which reminds me of the first election win of Hitler in the thirties also in Thuringia.
The title and thumbnail could use some serious work... Anyone who doesn't know about Germany will think this is about Germany and Berlin specifically, a bit misleading.
how is the ADF not illegal I thought that those types of political parties supposed to be outlaw
Political parties in Germany are very hard to outlaw, because they are protected by the insitution for very good reasons. The AfD can and will be outlawed only if they pose an actual, immediate, threat to the basic democratic order.
Afd is a right wing party with the same legality of existing like die Linke. Just because you don't like this party doesn't mean that it should be illegal. And given how many voters are voting for tgem, it seems the problems that mainstream parties made are a big ones.
First!
5:00 what exactly are their left wing economic policies? from what I've seen they are weak on taxes on capital, inheritance, and support making life harder for the unemployed. @EUMadeSimple can you make a video about them?
The basic description of them is left conservative, with economic policies like those of Die Linke, focused on supporting East Germany, and with social policies like those of AfD
@@VillaDish and it seems inaccurate
@@shway1 what makes u say that
@@VillaDish read original comment
God put right people because of the people 's decision 💫🪄✨💙🏆
no we hate all spd and cdu