The 2020 elections in Hamburg will be seen as a mood for German parties. Especially after the election debacle in Thuringia, there could be severe losses for some parties.
- The 2020 electoral election is considered a special election, as a mood barometer after the Thuringia debacle *.
- The FDP even has to tremble for entry into the Hamburg parliament.
- That’s the reactions.
Update 6.07 p.m .: As soon as 6 p.m. the polling stations close in Hamburg it is clear: the SPD is the clear winner of the general election in Hamburg. The Greens are strong second. More results remain to be seen. Vice Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) and Katrin Göring-Eckardt (Greens) are proud and satisfied in the ARD interview.
Reactions to the Hamburg election 2020: Kevin Kühnert with an appeal to the citizens - "It has never been easier ..."
Hamburg - The turnout in the general election in Hamburg * is far higher than five years ago. As early as 4 p.m., 57 percent of those entitled to vote went to the poll. The state electoral office said that in 2015 only 56.5 percent voted. This Hamburg election seems to be a special one not only for the individual parties. The election debacle in Thuringia has caused violent reactions throughout the republic. For the FDP and CDU, the election in Hamburg is, so to speak, a trend barometer for the mood of voters in Germany.
Red-green has been ruling in the Hanseatic city since 2015. Now top Green candidate Katharina Fegebank * wants to take over the post of Mayor of Peter Tschentscher (SPD) * and make his SPD a junior partner. In the district elections in May last year, the Greens had won 29.3 percent of the vote across Hamburg and were thus ahead of the SPD, which came to 27.0 percent. In recent weeks, however, pollsters have seen the SPD consistently in the lead.
Reactions to the general election in Hamburg
SPD Vice Kevin Kühnert may also be happy about this. If so, then at least for the time being behave - rather, he writes it on Twitter, if the Hamburgers should raise their very best and go to the polls - to vote for the AfD from parliament. And Kühnert could be right. In the Sunday question of February 20, 2020, the AfD was just under six percent. Other recent surveys on the state election in Hamburg * attest the SPD a head start, the AfD a difficult position.
Ass up, #Hamburg. It has never been easier to kick the #AfD out of a parliament - when many vote democratically and anti-fascist. Spread the word! pic.twitter.com/AHTIq1d23e
- Kevin Kuehnert (@KuehniKev) February 23, 2020The SPD won the 2015 general election with 45.6 percent of the vote. The Social Democrats led by Olaf Scholz then formed a coalition with the Greens, which came in third place to 12.3 percent. The CDU had won 15.9 percent of the vote, the left 8.5 and the FDP 7.4. At 6.1 percent, the AfD was first elected to a West German state parliament.
* Merkur.de is part of the nationwide Ippen-Digital editors network.
