Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Citizenship choice: Hamburg SPD can govern alone

Radiant election winner: the SPD's leading candidate Olaf Scholz, the SPD in Hamburg replaced after ten years, the CDU government and moves with an absolute majority in the City Hall. According to the Sunday night announced the provisional official part of income attributable to the Social Democrats under her leadership candidate Olaf Scholz, 48.3 percent of the vote (2008: 34.1 percent).

The CDU, with its top candidate Christoph Ahlhaus lost drastically to vote and reached only 21.9 percent from 42.6 percent in 2008. The Greens are, according to state election director to 11.2 percent (2008: 9.6 percent), the left to 6.4 percent (2008: 6.4 percent). The FDP, which had not done in 2008 with 4.8 percent in the Hamburg Parliament succeeds, with 6.6 percent of the re-entry into the state parliament.


Scholz was delighted with his victory. "This is a very, very impressive election result that we predict the outlook here," the former Federal Labor Minister said on Sunday evening. There was a desire for a serious policy that is pragmatic and reliable. In this context, he mentioned the issues of finance, economy, housing, or daycare.

He would not betray the trust of voters, said the prime minister-designate. The mayor voted out of Hamburg Christoph Ahlhaus has admitted the defeat of his party. "This hour is painful for the CDU and it carries us away in bewilderment," said Ahlhaus before his party friends and campaign workers.

At the bitter defeat for the CDU, there is nothing to gloss over. Ahlhaus congratulated the SPD and his challenger, Olaf Scholz, who now had to form a government within the meaning of the city. "The attempt to black-green coalition was right and has half years worked well," he said. "It was wrong to make too many concessions to the coalition partners, who no longer understood our constituents.

The revenge today. "The SPD chairman Sigmar Gabriel called the success of the Social Democrats in state elections in Hamburg as a" great momentum "for his party in the super-election year 2011. "This is a tailwind for Nils Schmid in Baden-Württemberg, for Jens Bullerjahn in Saxony-Anhalt, Kurt Beck in Rhineland-Palatinate and then later Jens Börnsen, Klaus Wowereit and Erwin Selle ring," Gabriel said on Sunday evening in the ZDF.

The seats in the Hamburg state parliament are distributed according to the initial forecasts as follows: SPD 63-65 seats (2008: 45), CDU 26 seats (56), Greens 14-15 seats (12), left 8-9 seats (8) FDP 8 seats (0). The Minister of State in the Chancellery, Eckart Klaeden (CDU), called the election results in Hamburg as a "slap in the office." For the CDU at the federal level, but this will have no consequences, "said von Klaeden on Sunday evening in the ARD.

It was gone in this election, especially to Hamburg topics. By a new electoral law, the citizens were the first time to distribute to 20 crosses, with ten votes for the citizenry, ten votes for each district assembly were determined. The votes were either distributed or accumulated only a party or a candidate to be allocated.

Because of the complex election law, the first estimate was announced differently than usual against 18.20 for 20 clock until clock. The Returning Officer had indicated that there would be a final result only in a few days. Because of the complicated electoral law had applied much more hamburgers than before absentee voting.

In the morning confident Scholz on Sunday in voting in Hamburg-Altona The state election 121 seats were awarded. In return, according to the National Election Office in the 17 constituencies and an electoral association twelve parties. A total of 1035 candidates competed for a seat in state parliament.

At the state election and the concurrent district assembly elections may participate 1,326,864 hamburger. On Sunday afternoon, drew from an even lower turnout than in 2008. At that time only 63.5 percent of voters had made used of their right to vote. The turnout was so low from 5.2 percentage points than in 2004.

Never took it since the war to a state election in some less voters. The previous lowest rate in 1991 was 66.1 percent at that time still undercut by another 2.6 percentage points. Clear loser: Hamburg ruled previous Mayor Chris Ahlhaus (SPD) in Hamburg, the CDU for almost ten years in shifting coalitions from 2004 to 2008 even with an absolute majority.

The Christian Democrats, the SPD in 2001 after 44 years of uninterrupted power replaced. The election this Sunday is the first of a number of other state elections. On 20 March was followed by Saxony-Anhalt, on 27 March is elected in Rhineland-Palatinate and Baden-Württemberg, on 22 May in Bremen, on 4 September in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and 18 September in Berlin.

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