In the election for citizens, one party in particular could benefit from the final campaign spurt. All news about the election in Hamburg in the live ticker.
- On February 23, the 22nd citizenship is elected in Hamburg.
- The SPD is currently ruling, but the comrades are threatened by their own coalition partner.
- With our live ticker you will not miss any news about the choice.
Update from February 22, 2020: Currently, the state election in Hamburg is the only state election this year. It wasn't just the events in Hanau that had an impact on what happened before tomorrow's election. Developments since the government crisis in Thuringia could also influence the election. The CDU and FDP have been under great pressure since the Thuringia crisis. The parties may have been harmed by the election of Thomas Kemmerich (FDP) with votes from the CDU and AfD. The SPD and the Greens, however, have been in the lead in the polls of the past few weeks (see also below).
Citizenship election 2020: AfD cancels election campaign conclusion - new poll predicts election winners
Update of February 21, 2020, 10.12 a.m .: According to another survey in Hamburg, everything points to a clear victory of the SPD in the citizens' election on Sunday. According to a survey published on Thursday evening by the research group elections for ZDF, the social democrats around the First Mayor Peter Tschentscher would reach 39 percent if the parliament already voted.
The Greens around Vice Mayor Katharina Fegebank, with whom the SPD has been governing since 2015, reach 24 percent. The CDU is twelve percent, the left has eight and a half percent and the AfD six percent. With a poll of five percent, the FDP still has to worry about re-entering citizenship.
The SPD's poll ratings had recently increased significantly during the hot campaign phase . For weeks now, the Social Democrats have been clearly ahead of all other parties and beyond the 30 percent mark with a generally rising trend.
2020 citizenship election: AfD cancels election campaign end and gives two reasons
Update from February 21, 2020, 10:01 a.m .: AfD Hamburg has canceled its election campaign event planned for Friday. Due to the political and media sentiment and the massive counter-protests to be expected, the security of the citizens in the Henstedt-Ulzburg community center could not be guaranteed, the party said. In addition, the AfD Hamburg does not want to be accused of acting insolently . The other Hamburg parties had also canceled several planned events on Thursday and Friday due to the allegedly extreme right-wing and racist violence by Hanau. A new citizenship will be elected in Hamburg on Sunday.
Update from February 20, 2020, 1:36 pm: The bloody deed of Hanau also overshadows the election campaign in Hamburg : The SPD canceled its closing event on Thursday . "Instead, we call on 4:30 p.m. to join the protest and commemoration of the victims of the right-wing terrorist attack in #Hanau at the Rathausmarkt," tweeted the state chairwoman and social senator Melanie Leonhard. "In view of the terrible events in #Hanau, we cannot simply continue the election campaign," emphasized Mayor Peter Tschentscher (SPD).
Today is not a day for political conflict between democratic parties. We therefore cancel the @spdhh election campaign final planned for today. #Hanau (1/2)
- Melanie Leonhard (@melanieleonhard) February 20, 2020In the evening, the Social Democrats originally wanted to contest the final before the Mayoral election on Sunday with Federal Minister of Labor and Party Deputy Hubertus Heil, Federal Minister for Family Affairs Franziska Giffey and Prime Minister of Rhineland-Palatinate Malu Dreyer.
Citizenship election 2020: Journal entry should relieve SPD in banking affair
Update from February 20, 2020, 12.32 p.m .: A diary has appeared that relieves the SPD in Hamburg, reported for the first time the "Hamburger Abendblatt" (payment content). These are the records of Christian Olearius, one of the main owners of the MM Warburg bank in Hamburg. As reported by the Tagesspiegel, Olearius attested to the then Mayor Scholz that he had explicitly shown reserved behavior at the meeting. The well-known wording in the diary thus speaks at least against the opposition's assumption that after the meeting Scholz instructed his finance senator Tschentscher to prevent reclaims from Warburg.
Citizenship election 2020: explosive developments in Hamburg in the live ticker - SPD massively under pressure
Update of February 18, 2020: Only a few days before the citizens' election , the Social Democrats in Hamburg come under pressure. There are serious allegations: alleged tax gifts to the Warburg Bank.
The party still has to explain the alleged involvement of top candidate Peter Tschentscher and the former mayor and today's finance minister Olaf Scholz, when the SPD member of the Bundestag Johannes Kahrs comes into focus. This is reported by the Tagesspiegel .
After a meeting between the then mayor of Hamburg Olaf Scholz and the boss of the Warburg Bank, which was heavily burdened in the “cum-ex” scandal, the taxpayers' federation of Scholz's successor Peter Tschentscher demanded complete clarification, the left one an investigative committee and the FDP one Special meeting of the Committee on Budgets before the election on February 23.
As has now become known, the SPD district association Hamburg-Mitte led by Kahrs should receive election donations from Warburg in 2017. According to this, around 45,500 euros should have flowed to the SPD. 38,000 of these went to the Kahrs district association alone.
In “cum-ex” transactions , shares with (“cum”) and without (“ex”) dividend entitlement were moved back and forth between several parties around the dividend date. In the end, the tax authorities no longer knew who the papers belonged to. Tax authorities reimbursed capital gains taxes that had not been paid at all. The state suffered a billion dollar damage.
According to media reports, the tax authorities had a tax liability of Warburg Bank of EUR 47 million from 2009 that was time-barred.
Citizenship election 2020: The developments in Hamburg in the live ticker
Announcement of origin from February 11:
Hamburg - Elections are just around the corner in Hamburg . With the 22nd citizenship, the Hamburg-based electorate elected their parliament on February 23, which carries out both state and local political tasks in the city-state.
More than 1.39 million citizens are asked to vote. The SPD is currently governing together with the Greens and, with Peter Tschentscher, is also the current Mayor . However, the Social Democrats are threatened by their own coalition partner and their top candidate Katharina Fegebank .
Citizenship election 2020: All developments regarding the election in Hamburg in the ticker
On election day on Sunday you can find out all the important events surrounding the race for the top positions in the town hall and the distribution of seats in the parliament. A total of 15 parties are up for election. In addition to the government parties , the CDU , FDP , AfD and the Left have also made it past the five percent hurdle in the last election.
Sunday question about the general election in Hamburg (#HHWahl) • Infratest dimap / NDR: SPD 34% | GREEN 27% | CDU 14% | THE LEFT 8% | AfD 7% | FDP 5% | Other 5%
➤ History: https://t.co/K7AuXCxKC3 #ltwhh pic.twitter.com/cwcSEZITQD
All parties have also set up their own top candidate. In addition, the citizens can also decide for themselves who moves into the citizenship for the parties. 71 of the 121 seats are allocated through direct mandates . That is why voters receive two ballots each.
Citizenship election in Hamburg 2020: How to vote
By early February, samples of the ballot papers had been sent to all eligible voters . However, the samples may not be used for voting . And the election notification itself is not required for voting. If you haven't got one, you should still contact the polling station . Otherwise you may not be registered in the electoral roll. Eligible voters can also vote by postal vote, but other deadlines must be observed.
The main focus of this campaign was on housing and renting . You can read the positions of the parties in the respective election program. If that's too dry for you, there's a version of the popular Wahl-O-Maten for the Hamburg elections .
You can also find facts about the election, the Hamburg electoral system and the results of 2015 in our article on the results of the Hamburg elections.
The Green Party politician Katharina Fegebank * is against the First Mayor Dr. Peter Tschentscher - and wants to replace him.
* merkur.de is part of the nationwide Ippen editorial network.
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