Berlin's SPD state chairwoman Franziska Giffey is calling for a higher profile for her party in the traffic light coalition. In the partial repeat of the federal election in Berlin, the SPD in particular lost.
Voter turnout was low, with only around 51 percent of eligible voters voting. The strong performance of the AfD and the low voter turnout in the partial election on Sunday are warning signs, says the former governing mayor of Berlin. The 2021 federal election was repeated on Sunday in around a fifth of the electoral districts.