Hendrik Wüst, Prime Minister of the North-Rathy Rhine
Clear victory of the Merz party in the North-Restfália Rhine. SPD in 2nd, AFD in 3rd – and with virtually triple of the 2020 votes.
The Christian Democratic Union (CDU, in the acronym in German), from German chancellor, Friedrich Merz, became the most voted party in the local elections this Sunday in NORTH-RESTFÁLIA RENANIA, Germany’s most populous stateaccording to the first projections.
A CDU leads the electoral results with 33,7% of the votes accounted for, followed by the Social Democratic Party (SPD), com 22,1%, and the far right of the alternative to Germany (AfD), third with about 15% of the votes, almost triple The support he had five years ago in the western state, according to projections by public broadcaster WDR.
Os Verdes They suffered strong losses, falling almost seven percentage points to 13,1%, while the free democratic party (FDP) lost two percentage points, with 3,5% of the votes.
On the other hand, The left (The left) improved a point and a half its results, obtaining 5,5%.
The conservative chancellor party, in the first elections with Friedrich Merz at the head of the German executive, should be confirmed with more than one third of the express votes, in a scrutiny that attracted 58.5% of census voters, according to WDR, in significant participation than the local elections of 2020 (51.9%).
CDU parliamentary leader Jens Spahn said the results reinforce both the Regional Party and the Federal Coalition of Merz.
“The good result in North-Avestefália Rhiners is the reward for the good work on the ground. But it also represents a impulse for the coalition in Berlin”He told the German news agency DPA.
Already the Prime Minister of the State, Hendrik Wüst, Also from CDU, he expressed concern about the growth of AFD, which almost tripled the percentage of votes he had five years ago.
“This result should make us reflect and It doesn’t allow us to sleep quietlyNot even to my party, which has won these elections so clearly, ”Wüst stressed to the ARD public jail, considering that AFD advance represents a problem for the Federal coalition of Merz.
For their part, SPD co -presidents, Bärbel Bas and Lars Klingbeil, expressed the disappointment with the result of these state elections. “It is true that we could not stop the fall tendency,” Bas admitted in statements to WDR.
“Of course the rSulted do not make me happy“, He said after the first projections, who placed the SPD with about 22% of the votes throughout the federal state.
AFD co -president Tino Chrupalla has classified the party’s outcome as a success, noting that “the first predictions suggest that AFD tripled its votes.”
“This is a great success For us. Congratulations to all our elected representatives, both the current and the new ones. We are a popular party and we all have a great responsibility to Germany, ”he wrote on social network X.
