Voters are head of elections in the northern German state of Hamburg on Sunday, where Social Democrats (SPD) are aiming to rally with a crushed defeat in the national elections a week ago. SPD currently controls the northern German city-state in an alliance with greens.
Polling stations open at local time (0600 UTC/GMT) at 7:00 am and this year the only election of Germany at the state level is currently closed at 6:00 pm.
Most of the attention is on how the SPD fare of Chancellor Olaf Sholaz was in Hamburg after facing the party’s worst nationwide result in the federal elections last week.
Christian Democrats (CDU) and Bavaria-only Christian Social Union (CSU) came to the top last week in the orthodox block, in which the SPD of Scollase was able to finish third only behind the far-flung option for Germany (AFD).
Polle predicts SPD win in the traditional stronghold
Hamburg is led by a center-top alliance, including SPD and greens for the last five years and pre-election polling has predicted another majority for the alliance led by Social Democrat Mayor Peter Tschesher.
However, this year TSchenscher is expected to win by a small margin, a day before the opening of the voting, he said that he was optimistic to SPD Vole to shake the poor national outcome, due to long support for his party in Hamburg.
He said, “When the federal political situation is so complex, the political decisions of the state are always affected.”
For the Research Group Election Polling Group, SPD is predicted to win 33% of the votes, followed by CDU at 18% and Greens at 17%.
The Left, which has been predicted to grow up to 12%in the last week’s national election, has been predicted to grow up to 12%, followed by a far-flung AFD with 9%.
At least 121 seats are for the tomb in the regional parliament in Hamburg, and just like the federal elections, parties need to secure at least 5% of the votes to enter Parliament.
Although the voting age in the federal elections is 18, all citizens of German citizenship are eligible to cast a ballot since the age of 16.
Edited by: Sean M. Cinico
