Stab in North Rhine -Westphalia
Parties advise against the end of the prison – AfD and Green Losers
Switching on the OB-Settle, winner and elsewhere long faces-what do the parties take from the NRW stitching elections with them?
After the stitch elections about top local posts in North Rhine-Westphalia, the parties analyze their results. The Chancellor comes to NRW: Friedrich Merz (CDU) takes part in a meeting of the CDU state board (4.30 p.m.) in Düsseldorf. A joint press statement with the Prime Minister and CDU state chief Hendrik Wüst is then planned.
The SPD state party chairwoman Sarah Philipp named the loss of the mayor of Dortmund, a “painful defeat”. This has to be processed on site, said Philipp on Deutschlandfunk. But it is also clear that nowhere can a town hall be “leased” by a party for all eternity. The SPD also achieved success in the runoff election – and these success stories have to be towered over to the entire country.
The SPD had experienced a change of feelings in the stab elections around mayor’s offices. In the Ruhr area metropolis of Dortmund, who had been social democratically for around 80 years, the Social Democrats lost the OB post to the CDU. In contrast, the SPD won the city of Cologne again after ten years and will provide the mayor with Torsten Burmester in the future.
The SPD was also able to recapture the town halls in the Ruhr area city of Oberhausen and in Mülheim/Ruhr from the CDU and also won with its candidates in the district city of Bochum and in Wuppertal. In the evening, the SPD state board wants to advise the results in a digital meeting.
Despite the loss of the Ruhr area city of Dortmund, also known as the SPD “Heart Chamber”, SPD federal chief and Vice Chancellor Lars Klingbeil made it easier to find out about the outcome of the NRW municipal elections. “The AfD could not prevail in any single runoff,” said Klingbeil to the newspapers of the Funke media group.
With Cologne, the SPD brought back the largest city in North Rhine -Westphalia and continued to position most in North Rhine -Westphalia with 13 mayors. “This shows where we are strongly anchored on site, we can be successful with our politics.”
The SPD-CO chairman Bärbel Bas warned that the SPD had to take people’s concerns seriously and improve everyday life. “The entire focus of our work must be.
The CDU was confident after the elections. In the state capital of Düsseldorf, incumbent Stephan Keller (CDU) goes into a second term. CDU politician Thomas Kufen also remains mayor in Essen for a third term.
In Bonn and Aachen, CDU politicians replaced the previous Greens Mayor. In the Bielefeld previously ruled by the SPD, the CDU candidate won as well as in Leverkusen.
Prime Minister Wüst spoke of a “vote for a pragmatic, solution -oriented, Christian democratic policy in the middle”. People see that the CDU has “done a good job in the past five years across all political levels in North Rhine -Westphalia”.
In the first ballot of the local elections on September 14, the Christian Democrats had clearly remained the strongest strength with 33.3 percent of the votes.
No “blue town hall” in NRW
The feared “Blue Wave” also failed to materialize in the stitch elections. The AfD, which was able to almost triple its result to 14.5 percent in the local elections two weeks ago, did none of its three candidates in Duisburg, Gelsenkirchen and Hagen.
The long-standing SPD office owner Sören Link won in the steel city of Duisburg. In Hagen, the CDU candidate Dennis Rehbein won the runoff election. In Gelsenkirchen, social politician Andrea Henze (SPD) won against the AfD candidate and will be the new mayor in the city affected by severe structural problems.
Troat paving Münster for the Greens
The Greens won the mayor’s post in the University City of Münster for the first time, but have to vacate the OB chairlifts in Bonn and Aachen and also lost to their candidate Berivan Aymaz in Cologne.
In the nationwide local elections two weeks ago, the Greens suffered high losses after winning in Bonn and Aachen OB post in NRW in 2020 and achieving their best result in the local elections.
Political scientist Oliver Lembcke from the Ruhr University Bochum said in “Morgenecho” to WDR 5, which in parts of the right-wing extremist AfD was “loser of the stitch elections”. This also applies to the Greens, whose “suffering” continued. One reason: the topics, climate and nature that still drawn in the 2020 local elections are “polarized” today. All parties are advised on site and a “ideologist politics”.
A black and green coalition has been ruled in NRW since 2022. The Green Federal Chair Felix Banaszak wants to draw conclusions for upcoming elections. “What we have to do now, towards the state election and towards the Bundestag election, is to rebuild that green politics will provide the right answers to the questions of the present and the future,” said Banaszak of the dpa.
It was very scarce in Siegen and Datteln, where new models are not excluded. In the runoff election for the Mayor’s Office in Siegen, Tristan Vitt (SPD) won 50.02 percent of the votes ahead of Steffen Mues (CDU), who came to 49.98 percent, the city announced. The previous incumbent Mues was only ten votes behind his challenger and current election winner.
It was even scarce in Datteln in the Recklinghausen district, where the distance was only three votes. André Tost (CDU) received 50.01 percent and André Dora (SPD) received 49.99 percent of the vote.
dpa
Source: Stern
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