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Wednesday, September 4, 2019

Andreas Kalbitz, September 4, 2019, Election in Brandenburg


Andreas Kalbitz
AfD in Brandenburg
AfD Kompakt, September 4, 2019

[Andreas Kalbitz is the Alternative für Deutschland chairman in the eastern German state of Brandenburg as well as chairman of the AfD delegation in the Brandenburg legislature. He is an army paratroop veteran. He here comments on the results of the September 1 elections.]

I am very happy with the strong delegation which can serve with political expertise and competence in the different thematic areas. The variety of occupational backgrounds of the future members of the legislature reflects what is already reflected in the election results: The AfD is long since a people’s party. A healthy mix of new and experienced members, men and women, academics, tradesmen [Arbeitern] and white-collar workers [Angestellten], represents Brandenburg society in its entire breadth.

The AfD advances with a more than doubled delegation size to the strongest opposition power and as the opposition will drive before it the state government. Who would still form this union of failures – it is now certain that there will be no “carry on” [‘Weiter-so’] for the next five years.The political pulse of our country will now be decisively set with the AfD, because the political substance of the old parties, the principal losers in the state elections, is at an end. The AfD is the only middle-class [bürgerliche] opposition in the Potsdam legislature.

[Translated by Todd Martin]