Parsing the Results of Sunday’s Elections in Saxony and Thuringia

On Sunday, voters will take to the polls in the eastern German states of Saxony and Thuringia. Later in the month, elections will be held in Brandenburg. These three state elections in eastern Germany are being watched closely at home and abroad. They will serve as a bellwether for the current government in Berlin one year before federal elections – but, perhaps more importantly, they will give an indication of the strength of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) and the newly formed Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht party.

Join the ACG for a virtual discussion with German journalist Nadine Lindner as part of our Superwahljahr 2024 series. Ms. Lindner has been a correspondent with Deutschlandradio since 2016 and covers the AfD, among other things. Before that, she was a state correspondent in Saxony and covered political developments there.

Nadine Lindner has been a correspondent in the Berlin studio of “Deutschlandradio” since early 2016 and is responsible, among other things, for the AfD and transport policy. Before that, she was a state correspondent in Saxony for two and a half years and observed the rise of Pegida there. She studied political science, journalism and African studies in Leipzig and discovered her enthusiasm for radio there at the training station “mephisto 97.6”. After graduating, she worked as a freelance journalist for “MDR sputnik” and the “FAZ”, and since 2009 for Deutschlandradio.