The federal election in Bavaria in 2021 ended with a historically poor result for the CSU.
The coalition in Munich is likely to face turbulent times.
The CSU received a historically bad result in Bavaria in the federal election in 2021 *.
The Bavarian SPD asked Prime Minister Söder to dismiss his Vice Aiwanger after his Twitter buck.
By the way: Our Bavaria newsletter * informs you about all developments and results from the Free State of the federal election - and of course about all the other important stories from Bavaria.
Munich - Bitter evening for the CSU: The party had the worst result for more than 70 years in the federal election in Bavaria.
After counting all 46 constituencies in the Free State, the Christian Socials only reached 31.7 percent, according to the state returning officer.
This corresponds to a decrease of around seven percentage points compared to the 2017 federal election (38.8 percent).
The biggest winners in Bavaria are the Greens, who, however, fell short of their own high expectations.
In second place in Bavaria came the SPD on Monday night with 18.0 percent, an increase of 2.7 percentage points.
The Greens achieved their best result so far in the Free State with 14.1 percent, 4.3 percentage points more than in 2017.
Federal election 2021: CSU in Bavaria with worst result in 70 years
The FDP gains slightly with 10.5 percent, the AfD loses 3.4 percentage points and comes to 9.0 percent. The Free Voters achieved 7.5 percent in Bavaria, but once again missed the entry into the Bundestag hoped for by party leader Hubert Aiwanger. The left garnered 2.8 percent of the vote. According to the website of the state returning officer, the turnout was 79.8 percent - slightly more than in the 2017 federal election with 78.1 percent at the time. CSU boss Söder reacted disappointed on Sunday evening: "We do not like our result in Bavaria, on the contrary, it is not a satisfactory result," he said in Berlin. The CSU will "of course work through this in the next few days and weeks".
The Christian Socials lost for the second time in a row: In 2017, the CSU under Söder's predecessor Horst Seehofer had slipped by more than ten percentage points with 38.8 percent.
In the previous 19 federal elections, the party had only performed worse once, in the very first ballot in 1949 with 29.2 percent.
Söder claimed the formation of a government for the Union and pleaded for a coalition with the Greens and the FDP.
“We firmly believe in the idea of a Jamaica alliance.” An “alliance of reason” is needed in these difficult times.
According to the nationwide projections, however, the SPD was just ahead of the Union in the evening.
Federal election 2021: Greens get direct mandate in Munich - Scheuer loses
Therefore, SPD country leader Florian von Brunn also claimed the right to form a government for the Social Democrats: "I would say that this is an assignment to Olaf Scholz to form the next government." Bring Bavarian constituencies, only in Munich-South was the Green candidate Jamila Schäfer ahead. In the last three federal elections, the CSU won all direct Bavarian mandates.
In Passau, Federal Transport Minister Andreas Scheuer lost 16.8 percentage points - and still got his constituency with 30.7 percent.
Digital Minister of State Dorothee Bär lost 12 percentage points and won her constituency of Bad Kissingen with 39.1 percent of the first votes.
Both the Greens and the FDP want to co-govern.
"The result that is emerging is clearly a mandate for us Greens to take responsibility," said the Bavarian top candidate Claudia Roth.
However, the party is not satisfied with the best result in its history so far.
"We actually expected more," said Roth on BR television, as did Bundestag parliamentary group leader Anton Hofreiter.
Federal election in Bavaria in 2021: FDP excludes grand coalition
In the case of the FDP, its state chairman Daniel Föst said: The FDP is in double digits, and without it practically no government coalition is possible, provided that a new grand coalition is excluded: "And that inspires us," said Föst in the BR
Free Voters chief Aiwanger, who reaped outrage because he published preliminary forecasts from a polling institute on his Twitter account in the late afternoon. Publishing before polling stations close can result in a heavy fine.
“That doesn't work at all,” Söder criticized his deputy head of government on BR television.
“You have to talk again about how things will continue.” He also asked Aiwanger to “return to the practical work”.
Government work in Bavaria suffered from the ideas of the Free Voters in the Bundestag election, criticized the Bavarian Prime Minister.
"That has to come to an end now."
Federal election in Bavaria in 2021: SPD calls on Söder to dismiss Aiwanger
SPD General Secretary Arif Tasdelen called on Prime Minister Söder to dismiss Aiwanger from the state government.
The AfD, which was shaped by internal party disputes, had hoped for 15 percent, but instead lost significant votes and, according to the second extrapolation, was 10.5 percent. The deputy AfD state chief Hansjörg Müller made his resignation public on the evening of the election and attacked the state chairman Corinna Miazga and her supporters: "Backroom agreements and personal insults run through the board meetings."
Around 9.4 million citizens were called to vote in the Free State.
Many of them had already cast their votes in advance by postal voting - according to BR figures, postal votes were around 62 percent.
In Bavaria, according to the state returning officer, 967 candidates ran on 26 state lists and as constituency candidates.
