The German government of Chancellor Olaf Scholz is facing a rough next two years after poor results in state elections at the weekend.
German voters have handed a victory to far-right conservatives in a state election in Bavaria and the smaller central state of Hesse, while punishing the three parties running the country.
That will allow incumbent Governor Markus Söder to serve another term, but only in coalition with the populist Free Voters, who came in at well over 15 per cent, despite a last-minute antis-Semitism scandal involving the party’s firebrand leader, Hubert Aiwanger. Protesters carry signs saying, “We are governed by idiots” before the weekend voting in two western German states.Much the same has happened nationally to its sister party, the much larger CDU, the party of former chancellor Angela Merkel, as centre-right support has been eaten into by populist and extremist parties including AfD.
“The success of the Free Voters is due to Hubert Aiwanger’s populist impulses and not to the constructive policies they have pursued in the municipalities for many decades,” said Roman Deininger, a reporter with the, a daily newspaper based in Munich, who has followed Bavarian politics for decades. The Greens are just one of three parties in the coalition, along with the centre-left Social Democrats and the pro-business Free Democrats, they were singled out for special apathy.
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