2024 Brandenburg state election

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The election to the state parliament Landtag of Brandenburg was held on 22 September 2024. The outgoing Third Woidke cabinet was a black-red-green "flag of Kenya" coalition consisting of the Social Democratic Party (SPD), the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and The Greens, led by Minister-President Dietmar Woidke of the SPD. Despite losses of his partners, he could form a Fourth Woidke cabinet supported by the new Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance (BSW). Brandenburg was the third state election within former East Germany in September 2024, three weeks after the state elections in Thuringia and in Saxony in which the Alternative for Germany (AfD) had performed well, coming in a close second in Saxony and taking a clear lead in Thuringia under Björn Höcke. As the AfD is subject to a Firewall policy against the far-right in Germany, and was leading in the Brandenburg polls by 10%, the election became a two-horse race, either for AfD or against AfD, with several parties even losing representation...

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