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| Merkel's party loses to SPD, Greens in Bremen |
| 2011-05-23 |
| [Iran Press TV] German Chancellor Angela Merkel's ...current chancellor of Germany. She was educated in East Germany when is was still run by commies, but in 1989 got involved with the growing democracy movement when the Berlin Wall fell. Merkel is sometimes referred to by Germans as Mom... party has suffered its worst state election results and blames it on the country's economic crisis, as the SPD and the Greens gain the people's votes, preliminary results show. In the state election in Bremen, The Social Democratic Party (SDP) takes the lead by an overwhelming 38 percent followed by the Greens 23 percent. Merkel's Christian Democratic Union (CDU) experienced its worst result in 52 years, as they only received 20 percent from the city-state. "For the first time in the history of the German Federal Republic, we are ahead of the CDU in a regional election," said one of the Green federal leaders Claudia Roth, as reported by AFP. The Greens' anti-nuclear stance has recently gained support thanks to Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant disaster. While Bremen has always lacked confidence in the CDU, Merkel and her party, have lost support in four other regional elections this year. The city state has been led by the left-wing SDP since the end of the Second World War. The results were as expected for the indebted state, as the popularity of the CDU has been falling all over the European nation. For the first time, voters as young as 16 were able to participate in the state election, thanks to the new law that was enforced last year in Bremen. Despite this, voter turnout had dropped to 54 percent. There will be two more regional elections in the country this year, one of them in Berlin. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 It's Bremen. Not a normal German city. |
| Posted by: Whiskey Mike 2011-05-23 19:41 |