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Franziska Giffey (at the demonstration to mark the anniversary of Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine)
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According to a media report, the SPD's wafer-thin lead over the Greens in the Berlin repeat election has further reduced with the final election result.
It still amounts to 53 votes, reports the "Bild am Sonntag" and relies on documents from the election committee.
The documents are also available to the RBB.
At the request of the German Press Agency, state returning officer Stephan Bröchler referred to the meeting of the state election committee next Monday.
There the final result of the repeat election will be determined and announced.
The figures were probably sent to the committee members on Friday.
Only when the committee decides on the numbers on Monday will they officially be the final result.
According to the preliminary result, the CDU clearly won the repeat election with 28.2 percent.
SPD and Greens both got 18.4 percent.
According to the preliminary result, the Social Democrats have a small lead over the Greens with 105 votes.
The left came to 12.2 percent in the election, the AfD to 9.1 percent.
The FDP flew out of parliament with 4.6 percent.
Next week, the victorious CDU and the SPD want to decide in Berlin which party they want to pursue coalition negotiations with.
That was what CDU top candidate Kai Wegner and Giffey announced on Friday after the third round of exploratory talks by both parties.
"Hate and agitation that I didn't know before"
The lead of the SPD over the Greens for coalition issues is politically relevant.
Should those involved strive for a new edition of the red-green-red coalition – which would have a mathematical majority despite all the losses – then it would be up to the SPD to appoint the governing mayor.
However, the alliance is under a lot of pressure because the CDU has the highest gains and is ahead of every other party on its own.
In addition, the losses, especially of the SPD, are seen by many as a voter signal for a change.
Not least because neither the previous head of government, Franziska Giffey, nor her senators were able to win a direct mandate.
After the repeat election, Berlin's governing mayor Franziska Giffey experienced, in her own words, "hatred and hate speech from certain camps that I didn't know before," she said in an interview with "Zeit Online" on Saturday.
"Only because I dare, as the runner-up in the current legislature, to continue talking and working with my previous coalition partners until a new Senate is sworn in."
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