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The Social Democrat Malu Dreyer, Prime Minister of Rhineland-Palatinate, will vote in Sunday’s elections. Photo by Thomas Frey (AFP / Scanpix)
German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s party, the German Christian Democratic Union (CDU) suffered a painful defeat in the two German parliamentary elections on Sunday. The start of the elections is seen as a prelude to the German general elections in the autumn.
In both Baden-Württemberg and Rhineland-Palatinate, the CDU will lose its participation in local parliaments, according to the results of a post-vote poll and a preliminary vote count.
According to preliminary results, Baden-Württemberg is the main German party with 31.5% of the votes, while the CDU ranks second with 23% of the votes.
According to preliminary results, the Social Democrats (SPD) lead Rhineland-Palatinate with 34.5% of the votes, while the CDU obtained 26% of the votes.
This will be the worst result for the CDU in the history of the elections in both countries. Compared to 2016 elections, the CDU lost 4 percent. punkt bals in Baden-Württemberg and 5.8 in Rhineland-Palatinate, notes Deutsche Welle (DW).
Winfried Kretschmann, Prime Minister of Baden-Württemberg and Prime Minister, will now have to decide whether to continue the coalition with the CDU or to choose the so-called traffic light coalition with the Social Democrats and the Free Democrats (FDP). these parties received 12% and 11.5% of the votes, respectively. Another 11.5% of the vote in the Baden-Württemberg elections went to the right-wing alternative to Germany.
In addition to the electoral poll, 80% of the country’s population was satisfied with Kretschmann’s work. aliens and Baden-Württemberg are a perfect fit, shaking up the 72-year-old politician.
The Prime Minister of Rhineland-Palatinate, Maria Democrat Maria (Malu) Dreyer, is equally popular.
The results of the vote show that in this country a coalition of the CDU with aliens (8.5%) and the FDP (6.5%) is considered.
Most importantly, however, as DW points out, the results of these elections reveal a significant decline in the CDU in the near future of German politics.
German Chancellor since 2005 Merkel has already announced that she will step down and take over as Chancellor after the autumn general elections. V ra that in January mn. The CDU has elected a new leader, with Armin Laschet, the Prime Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia and the most populous politician in North Rhine-Westphalia.
However, LDPo Scholz, German chancellor and current finance minister, SDP candidate for German chancellor, said that the current CDU-SPD coalition could be dissolved after federal elections.
It is a good day to show that a government can be formed in Germany without the CDU, he told DPA, commenting on the results of Sunday’s elections.
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