SPD bucks national trend, while support for Merkel’s CDU drops to historic low
Germany’s centre-left parties consolidated their governing majority in state elections in the northern city of Hamburg on Sunday, while support for Angela Merkel’s conservatives dropped to a historic low and the far right crossed the threshold for entering parliament only by the narrowest of margins.
The Social Democratic party (SPD) bucked the national trend by holding on to one of its few remaining strongholds, emerging top with 39% of the vote. The Greens, the SPD’s junior coalition partner, doubled their share to 24.2%.
Source: German centre-left victorious in Hamburg state elections
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