Mike Hosking
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first heard Jan 2026
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So a couple of these by-elections.
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So Saxony the other day, where the ruling government, ruling party, got absolutely trashed by the AFD.
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That was a big enough problem in and of itself.
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At the moment, we've got Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and Berlin.
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And it's like, you know, it's not dissimilar to places in New Zealand, not everywhere in Germany, the CDU is going to do particularly well.
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Now, in Mecklenburg, for example, the big concern, AFD on exit polls have come out at 38%.
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So they've won.
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Problem once again is just because they've won doesn't mean anyone's going to work with them because they're not.
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So the ruling party, which is the Social Democrats, come in at 35%, so they're probably going to carry on.
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Main talking point in that particular region was, how would the CDU do?
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Would they crack the 5%?
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In other words, given an MMP situation, would they get 5%?
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Would they be represented in the Parliament at all?
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The answer appears to be yes.
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Exit polls have them at about 6% to 7%.
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So they needed to crack five, which is not great, but at least they're still there.
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In the other one, Berlin, they didn't have the same worries.
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They've come in at about 20.
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That's an exit poll.
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Die Linke, which is the party that governs there, at 26.
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