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Despite major losses, the SPD emerged as the winner of the Hamburg elections under Mayor Peter Tschentscher.
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Cheers from the Greens: they gain almost 13 percentage points and land in second place.
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Disappointed faces at the CDU: Christian Democrats are also losing votes in Hamburg.
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Disappointed faces at the CDU: Even in yesterday’s elections in Hamburg, the Christian Democrats are losing votes. Under top candidate Marcus Weinberg (52), the party dropped further and ended up in third place with 11.2 percent (2015: 15.9). This is their worst result ever in the city-state.
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After the third projection, the SPD of Mayor Peter Tschentscher (54) remains the strongest party despite the loss of votes. It is clearly ahead of the strengthened greens. The SPD achieved 39.1 percent (45.6). The Greens were able to roughly double their vote share with 24.2 percent (12.3). Her top candidate Katharina Fegebank (42) cheers. The Left Party also recorded slight growth of 9.1 percent (8.5).
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AfD creates re-entry – must still tremble
The right-wing populist AfD is expected to make it past the decisive 5 percent hurdle with 5.2 percent (6.1). The FDP must fear with 5.0 percent (7.4) about the re-entry. Like the CDU in Hamburg, the FDP dropped significantly compared to 2015.
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Due to the complicated electoral system, the preliminary official end result is not expected until Monday evening. Should the AfD still fly out of the citizenship, it would be the first time that the party founded in 2013 resigned from a state parliament.
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The bill for the Thuringian huddle
The state election is currently the only state election in Germany in 2020. The recent events in the failed government formation in Thuringia could have had an impact on the election result on Sunday.
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In the east German state, the FDP politician Thomas Kemmerich (55) was surprisingly elected Prime Minister on February 5 – because, in addition to the Christian Democrats, the AfD deputies also voted for him. All parties had previously ruled out cooperation with the right-wing populists, and Kemmerich resigned after a few days. After that, the CDU chairwoman Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer (57) announced her retreat.
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