By Josef Forster and Luisa Volkhausen
Alarm elections for the traffic light government in Berlin. Elections took place on Sunday in two large federal states, Bavaria and Hesse – and in both federal states the SPD, Greens and FDP have significantly lost support.
Deselect the traffic lights!
▶︎ In Bavaria, the Greens lost 3.2 percent, the SPD lost 1.3 percent and the FDP lost 2.1 percent – and were thus thrown out of the state parliament. In Hesse, the result for the traffic light parties is even worse compared to the 2018 state election: SPD minus 4.7 percent, Greens minus 5.0 percent, FDP minus 2.5 percent.
On the other hand, the big winner: the right-wing party AfD!
► In Hesse it has 18.4 percent (+ 5.3 percent) – making it the second strongest party (as of Monday, 12 p.m.). The AfD has also made significant gains in Bavaria, reaching 14.6 percent (+ 4.4 percent) and becoming the third strongest force.
The reason for the mega-success of the right-wing party, according to pollster Manfred Güllner, head of the Forsa Institute: “the great alienation between those in power in Berlin and the many people employed in normal employment.”
▶︎ Means: The traffic light ignores the will of the people!
Asylum policy
A topic on which the opinion of the traffic light and the voters differ: asylum policy!
83 percent of all voters in Bavaria are calling for a different asylum and migration policy, as an analysis by the survey institute Infratest dimap for ARD shows. 21 percent even say that the issue played the biggest role in their voting decision. In Hesse, the topic was crucial for 18 percent to tick their box.
According to Infratest dimap, 80 (!) percent of voters want a completely different migration policy than the traffic light government is pursuing!
An alarm signal towards Berlin! “The issue of migration is purely about federal policy and not about state policy,” says Bavaria’s Prime Minister Markus Söder (56, CSU). The clear mandate from this to significantly reduce the AfD again: “That we change this migration policy in Germany,” said Söder.
Economic development and climate
In addition to immigration, the key election issues in Bavaria: economic development (first place, decisive for 25 percent of all voters) and climate and energy (second place, decisive for 20 percent of voters)
In Hesse, too, economic development (21 percent) is the number one election-decisive issue, followed by climate and energy (20 percent). Who voters trust to get the economy back on track: the CDU. And clearly with 41 percent approval. The traffic light parties come in behind in terms of economic confidence.
The nationwide picture also shows this: Nuclear power plants out, heating hammers, combustion engines out – the majority of people are AGAINST all of these traffic light decisions!
► According to the latest INSA survey at the beginning of September, 81 percent of people in the country are dissatisfied with the federal government regarding the heating law.
► According to a Forsa survey, 67 percent of those surveyed are against the end of combustion engines.
► And according to the INSA survey, 52 percent consider the nuclear power plant shutdown to be wrong, only 37 percent believe it to be correct (11 percent did not provide any information).
Gendering
The following applies: Chancellor Olaf Scholz (65, SPD) does not care whether gender language is used in Germany. But: In many authorities, offices and ministries, citizens are alienated (“citizens”). The SPD and Greens also used gender asterisks in their election programs for the 2021 federal election. And thus open up a gender debate. According to the RTL/ntv trend barometer from July, almost three quarters (73 percent) of those surveyed are annoyed by gender.
Bitter traffic light interim report
Overall, a survey of BILD readers at the halfway point of the traffic light government (around 120,000 participants, as of October 9th) shows a disastrous picture of satisfaction with the traffic lights.
► 97 percent rated the work of the traffic light as “poor/unsatisfactory”, saying: “The traffic light does not have the situation under control!” Only one percent rated the work of the traffic light as “very good/good”, two percent gave the grade “ sufficient/satisfactory”.
Receipt for stubbornly ignoring the majority opinions!