German voters headed to the polls on Sunday for a key regional election in the ex-communist east where the far-right, anti-immigrant, Moscow- and Trump-friendly AfD is expected to secure an easy majority. Our correspondent Nick Holdsworth tells us more.
Uhm, no? They were never expected to win an easy majority. Which, by the way, they didn‘t in the end.
Easy majority ≠ super majority
That’s not how you use these terms in English usually:
A majority is more than half of a total, while a super majority is the amount of votes needed above a simply majority (usually things like 2/3 to do constitutional changes…).
Yeah, what they won is a plurality