Germany's far-right AfD clear frontrunner in eastern state vote

https://www.france24.com/en/video/20260906-germany-s-far-right-afd-clear-frontrunner-in-eastern-state-vote-1

German voters headed to the polls on Sunday for a key regional election in the ex-communist east where the far-right, anti-immigrant, Moscow- and Trump-friendly AfD is expected to secure an easy majority. Our correspondent Nick Holdsworth tells us more.

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Europellinore@europe.pub · 34 pts · 4d

skeezix@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 4d

I did nazi that coming

CosmoNova@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 4d (3 replies)

expected to secure an easy majority

Uhm, no? They were never expected to win an easy majority. Which, by the way, they didn‘t in the end.

5715@feddit.org · 4 pts · 4d (2 replies)

Easy majority ≠ super majority

Ooops@feddit.org · 8 pts · 4d (1 reply)

That's not how you use these terms in English usually:

A majority is more than half of a total, while a super majority is the amount of votes needed above a simply majority (usually things like 2/3 to do constitutional changes...).

HK65@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 4d

Yeah, what they won is a plurality

BallyM@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 4d

Shocking. Within our lifetime Germany could have a national government again which facilitates the commission of genocide. Like the current one and the last one.