• Germany: regional Hamburg, confirmation for red-green. Calano Cdu and AfD

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February 24, 2020 The SPD won in Hamburg, with the great fear given by the doubling of the Greens' votes, with Merkel's CDU taking a sensational blow and with AFD which eventually managed to enter the regional parliament. The surprise is given by Afd, a populist ultra-right party that after the first projections and forecasts, seemed to have to fly out of parliament. The news at some point was given for sure, so much so that in the electoral headquarters of the Greens, around 6 pm yesterday, "Nazis out, Nazis out" choruses rang out.

Batosta Cdu
German Chancellor Angela Merkel's party, the CDU, suffered another heavy blow in regional elections in the Hamburg area. Based on partial data, the Christian Democrats have lost a lot of votes and are in third place with 11% of the preferences. Boom, however, for the Greens and a confirmation for the SPD that should maintain the majority, allowing the continuation of the red-green coalition that leads the port city, as well as the second center of Germany. The far-right AfD party has lost consensus but will get seats according to preliminary data. The vote in Hamburg took place a few days after the Hanau shooting in which a man killed nine people. The Greens achieved 24.1%, double five years ago. SPD Social Democrats reported 39.1% consensus, down by
6% compared to 2015, but always first party.

Merkel runs for cover
After the Hamburg debacle, Angela Merkel's CDU is planning a special party congress for April 25 or May 9. The DPA writes citing sources close to the party. Yesterday the Christian-de, ochratic suffered a heavy defeat to the administrative of the city-state of Hamburg and for some weeks, overwhelmed by the Thuringian earthquake, they are disoriented and looking for a new leader.

The point
The expected vote for the renewal of the Landtag of the Hanseatic city-state assumes significant political significance for all of Germany. For Social Democrats, 39% of the votes, despite a sharp drop compared to the elections of five years ago (-6.6%), the outcome of the vote represents an important sigh of relief: for the party that was Brandt and Schmidt's first important victory for years, which assures Peter Tschentscher to maintain his position as mayor. As expected, the Greens doubled from 12.3% in 2015 with their flagship candidate Katharina Fegebank to 24.2% as the second political force in Hamburg: it is therefore practically certain that the current 'red-green' coalition will continue his government experience. Instead, it is "a bitter day" for the CDU by Frau Angela Merkel, who also sees here a bleeding of votes from almost 16% to 11.2% (-4.7%).