State elections: “I don't understand the good mood either” - the most memorable quotes of the evening

The election evening in Baden-Württemberg and Rhineland-Palatinate is slowly but surely drawing to a close after the state elections.

The most important quotes on the election results are summarized here.

Munich - In the middle of the Corona lockdown, the state elections in Baden-Württemberg and Rhineland-Palatinate took place on Sunday (March 14th).

In Stuttgart, Prime Minister Winfried Kretschmann (Greens) emerged as the clear winner.

The Rhineland-Palatinate Prime Minister Malu Dreyer (SPD) can also be satisfied with the election result: she was also confirmed in office.

State elections in Baden-Württemberg and Rhineland-Palatinate: Prime Ministers Kretschmann and Dreyer re-elected

The CDU, on the other hand, experienced a historic bankruptcy: In Baden-Württemberg, the party again lost votes, and in Rhineland-Palatinate it even set a negative record.

The Free Voters in Rhineland-Palatinate achieved a real surprise coup.

The party had the best chance of entering the Mainz state parliament on Sunday evening.

Our live tickers for the state elections in Baden-Württemberg * and the state elections in Rhineland-Palatinate for reading.

The state election in 2021 in the middle of the Corona crisis: All in all, an election evening in a state of emergency.

Here are the most important voices on the election results:

State elections in Baden-Württemberg and Rhineland-Palatinate: Historic defeat for CDU

Winfried Kretschmann (Greens)

, Prime Minister from Baden-Württemberg: "You never win elections alone, you only win them with the party you belong to."

Winfried Kretschmann (Greens)

, Prime Minister from Baden-Württemberg, on coalition negotiations despite the pandemic: " You can expect a Prime Minister to be able to do two things at once. ”

Olaf Scholz, SPD candidate for Chancellor

:“ It's a good day because it also shows that a government can be formed in Germany without the CDU. "

Olaf Scholz, SPD candidate for Chancellor

:" A lot is possible, and I want to become Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany.

It has also become visible today that it is possible. "

State election in Rhineland-Palatinate: Malu Dreyer - "If the evening goes on like this, it would be our first choice"

Malu Dreyer (SPD), Prime Minister from Rhineland-Palatinate

, on a possible continuation of the traffic light coalition *: "If the evening goes on like this, that would be our first choice."

Lars Klingbeil, SPD General Secretary

, on the state election results: "It are majorities beyond the Union. "

Paul Ziemiak, CDU general secretary

: “I don't understand Lars Klingbeil's good mood either.”

Markus Blume, CDU general secretary

: “Anyone who thinks they can now take the next exit - like the SPD - towards the election campaign makes a serious mistake because we still have the big tasks ahead of us. "

Christian Baldauf, CDU top candidate from Rhineland-Palatinate

: “It's not a nice evening.

But if there were only nice evenings, it wouldn't be okay either.

We give everything to form a strong opposition. "

State election in Baden-Württemberg: defeat for CDU - "Of course I take responsibility"

Susanne Eisenmann, CDU top candidate from Baden-Wuerttemberg

: “Of course I take responsibility, that's a matter of course for me”

Susanne Hennig-Wellsow, left chairwoman

, after the bad results: “As old Brecht said: He who fights can to lose.

If you don't fight, you've already lost. "

Robert Habeck, Greens leader

:" Far-sightedness and pragmatism, that is the mandate to the Greens as the entire federal party from this election evening. "

Andreas Schwarz, Green parliamentary group leader in the Baden-Württemberg state parliament

: "Baden-Württemberg has never been so green."

State elections 2021: FDP leader Christian Lindner - "With the FDP there will certainly not be a shift to the left"

Christian Lindner, FDP party leader

, on a possible traffic light coalition with the SPD and the Greens: "With the FDP there will certainly not be a shift to the left, with the FDP there will be lower rather than higher taxes, no ban on diesel engines or single-family homes, like some Greens demand that.

If the content is wrong, we even take the liberty of saying no. "

Alice Weidel, AfD federal chairman

, on adverse circumstances:" Then we were attacked by the protection of the Constitution in a completely unlawful manner, I really have to do that so drastically say, in order to put ourselves in a certain corner here as well. "

Hubert Aiwanger, Free Voters Bundeschef

, in view of the predicted entry of his party into the state parliament of

Rhineland-Palatinate:" We want the new liberal-conservative force at the federal level be. "

Joachim Streit, top candidate of the Free voters

," what we have decided to come into the state parliament is

reached.

A good horse barely jumps, they say in equestrian sports. "

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