The elections of today March 14 in Baden-Württemberg and Rhineland-Palatinate inaugurate the “super election year” which will culminate in the vote on September 26 for the Bundestag, the federal parliament.
by Isabella Bufacchi
The elections of today March 14 in Baden-Württemberg and Rhineland-Palatinate inaugurate the “super election year” which will culminate in the vote on September 26 for the Bundestag, the federal parliament.
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The polls closed at 6 pm for the elections of today 14 March in Baden-Württemberg and Rhineland-Palatinate. According to the first ZDF exit polls, greens are at 31.5% in Baden-Württemberg, a state in which the CDU drops to 23% compared to 27% in 2016 (if confirmed it would be a historic collapse), while the far right Afd is 11.5%, SPD Social Democrats are 12%, FPD is 11.5%
The social democrats of Malu Dreyer are instead ahead of the regional ones in Rhineland-Palatinate with 33.5% compared to the CDU which, with Christian Baldauf, is still at 25.5%, the greens are at 9.5% and the liberals of the Fpd are at 6.5%, the far right Afd is at 10.5%.
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The vote today March 14 in Baden-Württemberg and Rhineland-Palatinate is considered a dress rehearsal of the federal elections on September 26, in a pandemic context exacerbated by the arrival of the third wave and the slowness of vaccinations.
Angela Merkel’s CDU arrived at this appointment with declining polls, due to the discontent caused by the vaccine campaign and the long lockdown, and to the bewilderment aroused by the mask scandal involving a member of the Christian-Democratic Union of Baden -Wuerttemberg and the Bavarian CSU.
Forecasts
The victory of the parties that won the elections in 2016, Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen in Baden-Württemberg and Spd in Rhineland-Palatinate, is taken for granted. And this thanks to the charisma of the two ministers-president in office, Winfried Kretschmann of the Greens (polls range from 32% to 35%) and the Social Democrat Malu Dreyer (in the polls to 32%, down from 36.2% in 2016) .