Elections in Bavaria and Hesse: the results are in!

Bavaria and Hesse recently held their state assembly elections. Was it a triumph for the populist right, or did the mainstream parties stand firm? Find out in this thrilling video.

Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
00:38 Bavaria in 2018
01:22 The Aiwanger scandal
01:58 Who are the Free Voters?
02:33 Bavaria in 2023
03:17 Hessian elections
04:03 An AfD victory?

Music:
"Style Funk" and "Hot Swing"
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[soundscape]

Thanks Andrew... always appreciate your straight to the point informative takes.

[dollopsofspraycream]

This was just the right level of detail, great graphics, and really interesting (for me at least). Thanks!

[KonradKeck]

Great introduction to what just happened in Hesse and Bavaria. Nothing wrong there, just two quick notes...
First, the "Freien Wähler" are a less liberal or conservative party, but more a loose group of people who haven't found a place in other political movements (free thinkers, so to say). So depending where in Germany you are, the Freien Wähler may be more social or green - or in this case due to Aiwangers leadership very much conservative populistic.
Second, as much as I would like to learn and use 3D graphics myself (real envy here), they are not very helpful in for conveying data. At least not like this 😅

[nader]

My answer is "it's a shame the FDP weren't voted out of Hesse"

[SamAronow]

The KKK has also had mixed views on the environment and cannabis legalization, but I don't think those are the positions that either attract or repel people.

[captainschneider]

Ooooo German politics, I'm actually excited to learn what's going on.

[ppdbw]

It's not an uncommon observation that bizarre and malicious behaviour attracts more than a few voters.
For the same reason toxic persons find marriage partners with no problem...

[RagingGoblin]

Yes, voters are very unhappy right now.
But why exactly that is, I haven't been able to figure out yet. Yes, the coalition provokes a fair bit of noise while doing what it is they're doing, but statistically they *did* get some jobs done at least. I mean, Germans suffered 16 years of Merkmel-Management, which could probably be summed up by 'cautiously governing without moving too far from the status-quo'.
Yes, the refugee issue hurts the governing federal coalition, who certainly are more idealistic than many people find attractive. But I think it's also objectively true that the ruling coalition is facing a remarkably harsh media landscape.

[gerhardbrey]

It was clear from the outset that both in Hesse and in Bavaria the existing coalitions would continue. So voting for thr AFD wouldn't change anything apart from making the existing dissatisfaction with the Berlin coalition clear to Messrs. Scholz, Habeck and Lindner. A message, they were in dire need of. With the next three elections in the Eastern States it will be a completely different cup of tea.

[HeadsFullOfEyeballs]

There was a beautiful moment where the preliminary count for Hesse had the FDP at 4.9%, but I knew that was too good to be true.

[galinor]

Hard right is bad, but hard left is bad too. Moderate left appears pretty left and the greens are pretty hard left and not very green. People are fed up

[shutupluffy]

I have absolutely no reason to be watching this video. I don't live in Germany. My partner isn't German. My family isn't German. I don't speak German. I don't really want to learn German. But somehow your videos are always encapsulating nonetheless, even sucking in people like me who have much, much more pressing matters to attend to.
Keep up the good work mate! Give our best wishes to your wife too!

[Quotenwagnerianer]

The result of state votes clearly show time and time again that the general public is unfit to vote reasonably.
No matter who is running the federal government, if people are unhappy, they tend to vote against those parties in the state elections.
But that is not what these votes are for. You are supposed to cast your vote on what is going on in your state and not in the country as a whole. And the majority of voters do not seem to know the difference.

[avisorsetti]

Not me and my girlfriend watching this same video for the third/fourth time just because there's no new rewboss video

[John_Weiss]

As it was explained to me when I was majoring in German back in college [American here] in the late 1980s, the CSU is basically, "Bavarian-flavored CDU, " and exists because the Bavarians just needed to assert that they're Bavarian. 😆

[rustix]

You were talking about coalitions, are they on Federal land level?
If so can you also show the current coalitions per each Federal Land, and what they are actually doing in those Federal Lands?

[TheRealAssix]

As Bavarian I’m not happy with that result at all, but also not surprised…

[jankrusat]

I think that quite a few voters voted for the Freie Wähler BECAUSE of Aiwanger's anti-semitic quotes.

[Carmen......]

Hello
Do you have more Videos or Photos of the German Village Kleinkahl. I lived here since 2013 and now I am moving to a other Village near Kleinkahl.

[ljr]

Die Springer Presse macht der Anti-Ampel-Rhetorik aber auch extrem viel Druck