After Thuringia and Saxony, there is also the expected move to the right in Brandenburg (the state that surrounds Berlin), while there is hardly any talk about left-wing issues anymore. As “Die Linke” is fading into obscurity, it is time for the founding of MERA25 in Brandenburg and all other federal states.

The result: State prime minister Dietmar Woidke‘s social democrats achieved over 30 percent, performing better than in 2019. However, it only received many of these votes because voters wanted to prevent a victory of the right wing AfD (voter turnout was higher than ever before at 72.9%) and because this was not possible with the conservatives in Brandenburg. The AfD, which had long been ahead in the polls, came in at 29.2 percent after all votes were counted.

The centre left BSW, which was running for the first time, received 13.5 percent, while the conservatives only achieved 12.1 percent, its worst result in Brandenburg to date. The Greens, Left Party and liberals failed to reach the five percent threshold and did not win a single direct mandate that would have helped them enter the state parliament. A disastrous result, especially for “Die Linke”, which should actually benefit from the right-wing policies of the social democrats and the Greens.

The new state parliament will therefore be made up exclusively of parties that combine conservative economic policy with isolationism. One particularly alarming statistic shows that a large proportion of workers in particular vote for the AfD, while left-wing parties are hardly statistically detectable among them. It is therefore time to highlight elementary issues from our programme, such as the socialisation of housing and energy companies, in Brandenburg and to work on changing this situation.

In every federal state, there must be a perspective for an internationalist, progressive party and it must start in the extra-parliamentary opposition. This can be successful if the needs of the local population are combined with a commitment to important international issues such as peace.

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