This has never happened before: three candidates from Freising have made it into the Bundestag.
And a fourth could follow.
District - The party's tailwind carries Andreas Mehltretter (SPD) to Berlin. The 29-year-old, who was born in Moosburg, will probably be the third member of the constituency 214 in Berlin - next to Erich Irlstorfer (CSU) and Johannes Huber (AfD). Irlstorfer was able to defend his direct mandate, but had to accept heavy losses again - as did Huber and the AfD. Leon Eckert (Greens) also has a chance of entering the Bundestag via the list. Then the constituency in Berlin would be represented by four MPs - that has never happened before.
"I'm in," said Andreas Mehltretter on Sunday around 10 p.m. after the comrades' good Bayern result had solidified.
Mehltretter, who as a direct candidate achieved the second-best constituency result with 13.5 percent of the votes, was ranked 15th in the Bavarian SPD - around 20 comrades will move into the Bundestag.
The 29-year-old, who is currently working on his doctoral thesis, assumes that the SPD has the government mandate.
The first meetings for the new man are due shortly
He now wants to “push” in Berlin and campaign “that we in Germany rebuild the welfare state”.
“It's about good health care, stable pensions and the energy transition, which we finally have to tackle.” But Andreas Mehltretter also wants to campaign “that we have good jobs here in the region”.
In view of the “great transformation” that is imminent, this is immensely important.
First of all, the SPD man now wants to take care of a second home in Berlin - “the first meetings are due soon”.
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For the first time in 32 years, a social democrat from the district is in Berlin: great joy with Andreas Mehltretter (29) - on Sunday evening with the comrades.
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The direct mandate remains in the hands of the CSU, of course: Even if Erich Irlstorfer had to accept losses again and finally landed 36.2 percent of the first votes (in 2017 he was able to book 43 percent - and that was a minus of 11.1 percent compared to 2013 ), his victory in the race for the direct mandate was never in jeopardy.
Whether the relief of having made it again outweighs the disappointment at the poor election result?
It would have been “presumptuous”, according to Irlstorfer, to expect a result similar to the last two times in view of the strong competition, especially from the FW candidate, and in view of the difficult overall situation.
Irlstorfer: "You win together and you lose together"
Irlstorfer attributed the fact that the Union had caught up a little nationwide to a “good final spurt”.
But of course it is not the CSU's claim in Bavaria to land at 32 or 33 percent.
Irlstorfer commented that no election poster by Armin Laschet could be found in the district: You had distributed your own posters and otherwise “not posted as you might have done with a candidate for chancellor from Bavaria”.
Irlstorfer emphasized, however, that anyone who is now trying to pin down the bad result of the Union on a single person is wrong: "You win together and you lose together." That it will now be a long night, maybe long weeks, until he knows It is clear to Irlstorfer whether he will belong to a government or an opposition party.
Huber (AfD) defends parliamentary mandate and is feeling the wind
For the third man from Freising, who will sit in the Bundestag, it is already very clear that he will be the opposition: Johannes Huber, who received 9.4 percent of the first votes and made it back into the Bundestag via the state list.
Huber initially saw "a historical decline of the former popular parties CDU / CSU and SPD".
He rates the fact that the AfD is moving back into the Bundestag with around 90 mandates as a “continuing desire of the citizens for a democratic alternative”.
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Thumbs up: Despite the loss of votes, Johannes Huber (AfD) is back in the Bundestag.
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The fact that this time - unlike in 2017 - he was able to win more first votes than his party in the constituency, Huber interprets as approval of his “commitment to families and children during the lockdown crisis” even among non-AfD voters.
In Berlin, he will continue to "stand up for the acute requests of the citizens" in the petitions committee.
His conclusion: "I am very happy that the citizens, together with the AfD Bavaria, want to see me in the opposition again in the Bundestag".
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