For the first time, the Greens won a direct mandate in the federal elections in Hesse: The Frankfurt Bundestag member Omid Nouripour won constituency 183, one of two constituencies in the city, with a good 29 percent of the first votes and was well ahead of the runner-up among others SPD candidate Kaweh Mansoori and CDU applicant Bettina Wiesmann prevailed. Nouripour therefore does not have to take his place on the list to move into the Bundestag, as it has done in the past three legislative periods.
"This is a vote of confidence that I was hoping for and yet dared not dream of it," said Nouripour.
“It's an unbelievable feeling to have gained the trust of the Frankfurters, especially against the background of my biography - and at the same time it's an obligation.” Nouripour was born in Tehran and moved to Frankfurt am Main at the age of 13.
Previously only direct mandates in Berlin
Nouripour had given the first victory in a constituency as an electoral target, but after the high mood in favor of the Greens in the spring, he was recently skeptical whether the goal could be achieved.
Before these federal elections, only the former Green Bundestag member Hans-Christian Ströbele and his successor Canan Bayram in the Berlin constituency of Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg had repeatedly managed to win a direct mandate.
In Baden-Württemberg, the Greens, who provide Prime Minister Winfried Kretschmann there, now have several electoral districts, primarily in the cities of the state such as Stuttgart, Freiburg, Ulm, Karlsruhe or Heidelberg.
The Greens also demonstrated their competitiveness in urban constituencies in North Rhine-Westphalia with Bonn or Münster or in Hamburg as well as in a Munich constituency.
Armand Zorn wins second constituency in Frankfurt
Surprisingly, the 33-year-old SPD candidate Armand Zorn won the second constituency in Frankfurt with 29 percent of the vote.
This constituency 182 was also previously in the hands of the CDU, but the previous MP Matthias Zimmer was no longer nominated within the party.
His successor Axel Kaufmann now achieved less than 22 percent of the vote and thus had no chance, as did the Green candidate Deborah Düring, who should, however, move into the Bundestag via the state list.