Two observations. First, this mornings update on the numbers indicate the right-wing party (AfD) will be noted with 5.3-percent of the vote, just enough to get seats and continue to be in the assembly. That’s just down .8 of a point from 2015’s Hamburg parliament. They didn’t really lose much of anything....they just didn’t gain much over a five-year period.
Second thing, if one uses that stupid ‘Wahl-O-Mat’ software program for the Hamburg area, and take the 37 questions to suggest how you should vote....a lot of the questions revolve around social programs, or ‘free’ stuff. Example, several of the left-leaning parties were suggesting free subway travel, or free child-care. Roughly 75-percent of the voting public there asked for a leftist situation. If you went back 25 years ago, it would have been 60-percent asking for a rightist situation. Times and expectations have changed.
Compared to the Green surge AfD lost a lot.