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Election of Landtag in Hesse EU political leaders warn of the dismantling of GroKo
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Volker Bouffier warns of a left alliance
In Hesse, a new parliament is elected and the stakes are numerous, in particular for the CDU and the SPD. They continue to fall in the polls. Blame it: colleagues from Berlin. The Greens benefit from the loss of votes of the popular parties.
Sunday Hesse chooses his new parliament. The ruling CDU and the SPD are expected to suffer significant losses, the soaring Greens seems to continue. Follow all the current developments here in the Liveticker.
Vor the long-awaited elections in Hesse call on EU politicians to maintain the grand coalition in the Bund – despite the heavy losses feared by the CDU and the SPD. "We have committed ourselves to good governance for four years, so we are in the electorate in the word," said CDU Vice President Julia Klöckner of the Rheinische Post.
"The grand coalition must hold," asked CSU Vice President Manfred Weber. "This is essential to know if Germany remains stable," he told the spark group Media.
In Hesse, about 4.4 million citizens are called this Sunday to elect a new parliament. After the ballot, it is uncertain that the current black-green coalition could remain in office. This is mainly due to the weakness of the CDU of Prime Minister Volker Bouffier, who could lose as the SPD of the country chief Thorsten Schäfer-Gümbel compared to the national elections of 2013, around ten percentage points. According to polls, the Greens, with their first candidate, Tarek Al-Wazir, are considered the big winners.
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Thus, a similar development begins in Hesse, as during the state election in Bavaria two weeks earlier. There, the CSU had lost its absolute majority, the SPD had crashed to a single-digit result.
If the election of the CDU and the SPD in Hesse were drastically reduced, it would increase the pressure on party leaders, Angela Merkel and Andrea Nahles in Berlin, as well as on the Grand Coalition, where the opposition would be more difficult. atmosphere is already tempting. The secretary general of the CDU, Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, has already set up new elections in case of dissolution of the Alliance in Hesse.
Thüringen CDU leader Mike Mohring does not think about that. "Even if the SPD left the federal government after its defeat in Hesse, we would have to look for a new partner as a union," he told "Thuringian Allgemeine". The CDU is a popular party that operates out of the country's responsibility. However, in the event of a defeat in Hessen, Mohring expects the debates of the staff within his party to be "much more thorough". Merkel "will know better what is right".
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Thomas Kutschaty, leader of the SPD faction in North Rhine-Westphalia, was skeptical about the continuation of the grand coalition. "As it works now, it can not continue," he told the "Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger". If the SPD can not show any visible success before the 2019 Federal Party Congress, one may wonder whether "the foundation of a continuation is valid".
In Hesse comes the CDU after the approval of the "Politbarometer" of the ZDF from Thursday only 28% approval in the population. It would remain the most powerful force in the country. In the 2013 elections, Christian Democrats retreated, but their result remains at 38.3%.
The SPD and the Greens have a hard race to the head for second place and so are each at 20%. Five years ago, the Social Democrats reached 30.7% and the Greens 11.1%.
According to the survey, the AfD would enter the Hesse Parliament for the first time with 12% (2013: 4.1). The left would be 8% (2013: 5.2). The FDP, which fell sharply to 5.0% in the Wiesbaden Parliament in the last election, would also reach 8%.
Pollsters believe that it is likely that a trio will head Hesse. There are many clues from a Jamaican coalition, which would probably have a more stable majority than, for example, an SPD-led traffic light alliance.
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