Gulyas: Thuringia, Saxony election results ‘may be start of a new era in Germany’
“Hungary is not going to directly inferfere with the interior affairs of any other country but it is monitoring closely the political developments in the strongest European state and has a vested interest in a stable German government. In that regard, we see the start of a new era as support for the ruling parties has plummeted in the two eastern states, with the three [ruling] parties below 14 percent [in Saxony] and barely 10 percent in Thuringia,” Gergely Gulyas said.
Parties branded far-right or far-left in Germany had gained a majority in state legislatures, Gulyas said. The Christian Democratic Alliance (CDU), the largest party in the federal government, “now has to choose between the AfD or the far left,” he said, referring to the Alternative fuer Deutschland party.
The campaign had been marked by a focus on migration and “plummeting public safety due to migration”, Gulyas said. That makes attacks by the European Commission and the European Court of Justice on the “exemplary” Hungarian border protection on its southern border, “threatening for Germany too”, he said.
Berlin and German federal states would also face the threat of further waves of migration should Brussels persist in strong-arming Hungary to eliminate its protection of the external border of the Schengen Area, he said.
“We trust that the election results will move German political forces… to help Hungary’s fight against Brussels for an effective Schengen border protection,” he said.
The German election results also have a relevance in regards of the war in Ukraine, as the forces that came out ahead also opposed weapons deliveries to Ukraine and were calling for an immediate ceasefire and peace, he said.
The two soaring parties, AfD and the Buendnis Sahra Wagenknecht (BSW) have the same stance on the matters of “no war, no gender, no migration”, Gulyas said.
Exit polls have predicted that AfD had won 30.5-33.5 percent of the vote in Thuringia and 30-31.5 percent in Saxony, German public television has said. Should final results verify those data, AfD is set to become the governing party in Thuringia.
