24hoursworld

Senate elections in Bremen: Kevin Kühnert “extremely proud” of the SPD

Senate elections in Bremen: Kevin Kühnert “extremely proud” of the SPD

The SPD leads the Senate elections, followed by the CDU. The right-wing Citizens in Anger party is level with the left and the Greens are dissatisfied. Mayor Bovenschulte meanwhile announces that he wants to probe with almost everyone.

After their defeat four years ago, the SPD has again secured first place in the state elections in Bremen, according to initial forecasts. According to a research analysis, the SPD owes its electoral success in Bremen above all to the previous head of government, Andreas Bovenschulte. “In a citizenship election with a strong local focus, the SPD scores with party reputation, good Senate work and above all with its superior top candidate Andreas Bovenschulte,” said an election analysis by the Wahlen research group published on Sunday after initial forecasts. The left also remains relatively strong.

Mayor Bovenschulte keeps all options open

With the 57-year-old mayor at the helm, the Social Democrats have erased the shame of 2019, when the CDU became the strongest force in the state for the first time, ahead of the SPD. “The number one in Bremen, that’s us,” Bovenschulte confidently called to his party friends on the Sunday of the election and was delighted with the “terrific result”.

The defeat of four years ago, when the SPD achieved its historically worst result in Bremen, seems to have been forgotten. Only because the CDU failed to form a government at the time did the Social Democrats remain in power. It is true that the SPD on this election Sunday does not come close to the successes of previous elections. But Bovenschulte can now choose his coalition partners. The Greens and the Left are already offering to continue the previous government – ​​but the CDU is also ready.

Bovenschulte initially keeps all options open on election night. “We have to see where the similarities and differences lie with all parties and where it fits best,” he says.

Boldly proud – Nouripour disappointed

SPD General Secretary Kevin Kühnert has expressed his satisfaction with his party’s expected victory in the Bremen elections. “We are extremely proud of the SPD in Bremen and Bremerhaven,” said Kühnert on Sunday evening after the first forecasts. There is no need to be ashamed of the strong “personal bonus” of candidate Andreas Bovenschulte, who embodies the issues that the SPD has been there for over seven decades. Bovenschulte also set federal political accents, he was “the first and loudest voice for an excess profit tax in Germany”. It is important for the SPD that no government is formed against them.

Meanwhile, Greens boss Omid Nouripour has shown himself sober after the first forecasts for the elections in Bremen and Bremerhaven. He called the emerging result disappointing for his party. “The result is not what we wanted,” Nouripour admitted on Sunday evening on ARD. The Greens, who have previously co-governed in Bremen, ended up in third place according to forecasts with losses. The disappointment is great. “We certainly didn’t get any tailwind from the federal level, there were certainly reasons here,” said Nouripour on ZDF. “At the same time, Bremen has always been above the national trend, that was not the case this time. We have to look at that.”

FDP probably creates the five percent hurdle

Satisfied reactions, in contrast, on the left. “We are pleased with this result,” said the Federal Chair of the Left, Janine Wissler on Sunday. If it is true that the left is 10.5 to 11 percent, it is a “good, stable result”. The Bremen left had “made a brilliant election campaign,” said Wissler.

The chairman of the FDP parliamentary group, Christian Dürr, is also satisfied. His party did what it set out to do: re-enter the state parliament, he said on Sunday evening on ARD. According to the forecasts, the FDP with 5 to 5.5 percent just under the five percent hurdle. The Bremen FDP top candidate Thore Schäck was self-critical. It remains to be seen whether his party’s campaign really worked.

The protest party Bürger in Wut (BIW) explained its vote gains in the state elections in Bremen with general dissatisfaction among the citizens. Lead candidate Jan Timke also referred to his own “good work in the citizenship” on Sunday. In addition, BIW could have benefited from some people’s criticism of “the CDU’s left-wing course,” he said on ZDF. He referred to problems with crime and to the fact that Bremen is constantly “ending up in last place in educational studies”. “We were a gathering place for the dissatisfied,” said the BIW top candidate.

CDU misses election goal and is still satisfied

The CDU missed its target in the election and is clearly behind the SPD. Nevertheless, Bremen’s CDU top candidate Frank Imhoff is satisfied with the performance of his party. “I’m proud of our party, of us,” said Imhoff on Sunday in Bremen. “We rocked the election campaign.” The CDU gave everything in the election campaign and was “great”. The party’s deputy federal chairman, Andreas Jung, says that Bremen has always been a difficult place for the Christian Democrats. The situation is different at federal level, where the CDU/CSU are far ahead of the SPD in all surveys.

Nevertheless, the red-red-green government record in Bremen is bad, for example when it comes to internal security and poverty. In the city-state, “under no circumstances should there be business as usual.”

Source: Stern

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Latest Posts