Germany‘s 2021 is a super election year, with six state parliamentary elections and a general election for the German parliament on September 26.
The super election year kicked off this Sunday with state parliamentary elections in the states of Leafa and Bavaria. After the polls closed at 18:00 on the same day, German TV One soon reported that, according to the provisional tally, the incumbent Green Party governor of Bavaria, Kretschmann, and the incumbent Social Democrat governor of Leifa, Dreier, had both won their elections. They are both popular governors.
This year, voter turnout in both states was about 65 percent. But because of the new crown Epidemic, postal voters made up half or more of the electorate in both states. This made it take longer to count the ballots. According to provisional results released by German television stations TV1 and TV2 that night, both popular governors won their re-elections. The Green-Black coalition led by the Greens in Bavaria and the Red-Green-Yellow coalition led by the Social Democrats in Leipzig can both remain in power.
The right-wing populist Alternative has suffered small losses in both cantons, but is expected to remain the third largest party in both cantons. It is Merkel’s CDU that has suffered heavy losses in both states. In Bavaria, the CDU even broke its lowest record since 1950. CDU Secretary General Seimir admitted the CDU’s defeat that night.
Shortly before the election, two CDU MPs received hundreds of thousands of euros in kickbacks from German companies when they were brokering the purchase of masks from China. After the scandal came to light, the CDU’s reputation plummeted. Many parties believe that this is not good for the CDU’s election. But the fact that the CDU, the largest party, seems to be running out of steam and is unable to fight the third wave of the new coronavirus pandemic has also disappointed some people.
People are certainly hoping that the state parliamentary elections will show the direction of the German parliamentary elections in September. According to the Berlin-based Daily Mirror, the formerly exemplary German government’s seeming inability to fight the third wave of the epidemic has caused heartache and disappointment in the ruling party, the CDU, for its inability to fight the epidemic, as the number of new coronavirus infections has risen again. The CDU’s continued loss of popularity is evidence of this, and it is difficult to say who will win the parliamentary election on September 26. What is certain is that the party with the drive and vision to bring a new future to Germany will win the election. The conservative parties that cannot show the way forward will be the losers.
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