Original title: The German Bundestag election will be held in September before the ruling party wins the last local election. Source: CCTV News Client
On the 6th, the state of Saxony-Anhalt in eastern Germany held state legislative elections. According to export polls published by German media, the ruling party of German Chancellor Merkel, the CDU, ranked first with about 36% of the votes.
This is the last local election before the election of the German Bundestag in September this year, so it is regarded by many as a weather vane.
According to an export poll published by the German media, in the Saxony-Anhalt state legislative elections, the CDU won about 36% of the votes, an increase of 6% compared to the 2016 state legislative election; The right-wing party “German Choice Party” won 22.7% of the votes, down by about 2% from 2016; the left-wing party and the Social Democratic Party won about 11% and about 8% of the vote respectively; while the Green Party and the Liberal Democratic Party also won Approximately 6% of the votes crossed the “threshold” for entering the state legislature.
Although they won the Saxony-Anhalt state legislative elections, the CDU suffered severe setbacks in the local elections in several key states before. The Green Party’s support rate has soared and it has risen strongly.
According to a report from Reuters on the 6th, the latest German polls show that across the country, the support rate of the Green Party is “comparable to the CDU,” at about 25%. Many senior members of the CDU also admitted that it will be difficult to maintain the status of the largest party in the Bundestag in the September general election. Some analysts believe that in the general election three months later, the Green Party is likely to re-enter the ruling coalition after a lapse of 16 years. It is not entirely true that it “becomes the largest party in the Bundestag and thus produced the first prime minister in the party’s history.” impossible.
(Edited by Chen Zhuoran)
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