The Social Democrats managed to secure 29.5 percent of the vote in the region including Bremen and its North Sea city, Bremerhaven, which they governed continuously from the start, in 1946.
The Social Democratic Party increased by 4.6 percentage points, compared to 24.9 percent it achieved in the last elections in 2019.
The Christian Democratic Union (CDU) came in second place, with a forecast of 25.5 percent, a decline of 1.2 percentage points compared to 26.7 percent in 2019, according to the infratest dimap poll of voters leaving polling stations (exit-poll), commissioned From ARD National Public Television.
The data shows that the SPD is once again the number one political force in Bremen, one of the last strongholds of the Social Democrats. In 2019, the CDU party won the largest number of votes for the first time in the regional city, but remained in opposition, and the Social Democrats managed to form a government again, with the participation of Die Linke (left), and he remained of them, along with their former coalition partner, the party greens.
According to the estimate of the result, the biggest losers in the election are the Green PartyThe left-leaning Environment Party managed to get 12.5 percent of the vote, down 4.9 percentage points from 17.4 percent four years ago.
The left also weakened, reaching 10.5 percent, down 0.8 percentage points from 11.3 percent in 2019.
You can get representation in the legislature (Bürgerschaft) of Germany’s smallest state – it has a population of around 670,000 The right-wing local formation called Angry Citizens (Bürger in Wut – BIW), which scored 10.5 percent, is 8.1 percent better than 2.4 percent in 2019.
The Alternative for Germany (AFD) organization in Bremen, to the right of the centre-right CDU party, has not expanded its reach In the elections because he could not meet the conditions for candidacy due to internal disputes. In 2019, the party received 6.6% of the vote.
weak liberal FDP, However, it is expected to reach the 5 percent threshold required for provincial council representation. the party It managed to collect 5.5 percent of the vote, down 0.4 percent from 5.9 percent four years ago.
The Social Democrats are expected to continue to rule in the current coalition formation, either with the CDU or with the Greens and the Free Democratic Party. Mayor Andreas Bovencholt, local leader of the Social Democratic Party, announced at his party’s awaiting results event that he would start negotiations with all the democratic forces, that is, with all parties represented in the county council except the BIW, on the possibility of joint governance. . (MTI)
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