With state election 30 days away, parties of the right surging in Bavaria | Eastern North Carolina Now

While Germany's largest state, Bavaria, has always been governed by the right, the parties of the right appear to be on the verge of their biggest landslide with the election only 30 days away. All political eyes in the country are on the Bavarian election as it is the only German state voting on Oct. 8.

The right is divided among three parties, the traditional conservative Christian Social Union (CSU), longtime partner party of the CDU nationally, although consistently to the CDU's right, the populist / nationalist anti-immigration Alternativ fur Deutschland (AfD), and the populist / nationalist anti-immigration Free Voters.  Polls have consistently placed the three parties of the right in first, second, and third place, with all other parties trailing.  All three parties are expected to gain vote shate and seats.  Together they are polling at 70% of the vote, a gain of 12 points over the last state election.

The three parties of the national governing coalition which is led by the Social Democrats are all expected to lose vote share and seats based on the polling.  One of them, the Free Democrats, is expected to lose every one of its seats in the Bavarian Landtag.  Together, they are expected to receive about 25% of the vote.

An "August surprise" from the Social Democrats against the Free Voters leader seems to have backfired.  The Free Voters are now junior partners in Bavaria's coalition government with the CSU.  A retired school teacher who is a Social Democrat activist now and taught the Free Voters leader in high school, with great fanfare produced an anti-Semitic paper he claimed was written 30 years ago by the Free Voters leader.  The establishment media demanded his resignation as the state's deputy prime minister and that the CSU end its coalition with the Free Voters.  They expected to damage both parties.  Instead the CSU stood by their ally, and the paper's real author came forward and took responsibility for it.  The only poll since the smear collapsed, from the respected German pollster INSA showed both the Free Voters and the CSU gaining votes from the attempted hit job.

Immigration and the downside of expensive green energy are major issues in the campaign.

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