The center -right Christian Democratic Union (CDU), his major federal coalition party, he emerged as the first force was expected after yesterday’s local elections in Northern Rhine -Westphalia, Germany’s most populous state, at least based on the first, still non -final results published in the morning.
Chancellor Friedrich Mertz’s party ensures about the 33.3% of the votes, followed by the center -left Social Democratic Party (SPD, Isson in the government coalition), which holds 22.1%.
The far -right party Alternative for Germany (AfD) secured the 14.5% of the votes, the Greens 13.5%, the Left Party (Die Linke) 5.6%, the friendly company of the Free Democrats Party (FDP) 3.7%.
The – even first and foremost – results are generally consistent with the first forecasts of the public broadcasting network WDR.
Some 20,000 seats were at stake, between the city and municipal municipal councils, 31 regions and the state parliament in the Ruhr Industrial Center.
If none of the candidates for significant posts gather more than 50% of the votes will need second round of the processthat is scheduled to carry out the The next Sunday 28th September.
Nearly 14 million residents had the right to vote.
According to the WDR, participation in this electoral process amounted to 56.5%, a significantly higher level compared to the 2020 local elections (51.9%).
Source :Skai
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