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Baden-Württemberg's Prime Minister Winfried Kretschmann (Greens) has cast his vote.
Together with his wife Gerlinde, he went to vote in Laiz in the Sigmaringen district.
A total of 7.7 million citizens in Baden-Württemberg are called to vote for the new state parliament.
The request was restrained in the morning in cold and dirty weather.
Many voters have already cast their votes by letter.
Malu Dreyer (SPD), Prime Minister of Rhineland-Palatinate, was also in person to cast the vote in her home town of Trier that morning.
"I am confident," she said immediately afterwards.
“But we won't know exactly until this evening.” There is “no mood of change”.
Nevertheless: As a “very reserved person”, she can only be happy when the votes have been counted.
"It was really an incredibly long election campaign, yes, next to Corona," she said.
You had already started in January because of the postal vote.
“In this respect: Election day has to come at some point.
And today he's here.
And I'm happy about that. ”She hopes that many citizens who would not have voted by postal vote still voted on Sunday despite the mixed weather.
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The polling stations in Baden-Württemberg and Rhineland-Palatinate have been open since 8 a.m. and close at 6 p.m.
Special hygiene and distance rules apply.
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