Yesterday was Yesterday

It looks like Chancellor Schröder's strategy to deviate the voters' attention from the outcome of the election to the big question of the CDU/CSU "K-Frage" (who is going to be the conservatives' candidate in the upcoming election?). News at 9. a.m. this morning reported first about the advance of the national election, the outcome of the Diet election in NRW was secondary already. Prime Minister of Hesse Roland Koch has been quoted that It's not a big surprise that we want to go into the campaign with Mrs Merkel as our candidate, the leaders of the CDU/CSU (Christian Social Union) will hold a joint session later this day. The CDU doesn't have a manifesto for the election, so they're under pressure to pass many internal compromises (between CDU and CSU). This might lead to new quarrels and weaken the opposition. As I wrote yesterday, Schröder has no alternative - beside that he seems to be convinced that against a candidate like Mrs Merkel, in direct comparison, he might have a better chance (49% vs 21%). Also, German magazine Stern reports that Lower Saxony Prime Minister Christian Wulff would be a more promising candidate than Angela Merkel. Yet, Mr. Wulff said "No" when asked whether he'd like to run for office, but that could change quickly, if the prospects are good enough.

Local radio, Antenne Düsseldorf, reported that the CDU gained 13% with workers and unemployed. Also, looking at the results below, the Green Party and Liberals both recieved less votes than in 2000 - since the tune of the campaign of CDU was in the spirit of change, this seems to have hurt the smaller parties as well. The FDP lost one of its popular local political leaders, Jürgen Möllemann and didn't build up new faces fast enough. The Green Party didn't recover yet from the Visa Affair earlier this year.

The interim results of the election in NRW:


Diet election on 22.05.2005

number%
eligible voters13 239 170100,0
voters8 334 56163,0
invalid votes91 1891,1
valid votes8 243 372100,0
therefrom

SPD3 059 07437,1
CDU3 695 80644,8
FDP 508 3546,2
Green 509 2196,2
REP67 2820,8
PDS72 9820,9



Diet election on 14.05.2000

number%
eligible voters13 061 265100,0
voters7 409 39956,7
invalid votes72 9881,0
valid votes7 336 411100,0
therefrom
SPD3 143 17942,8
CDU2 712 17637,0
FDP 721 5589,8
Green 518 2957,1
REP83 2961,1
PDS79 9341,1


At noon, the office for statistics and election is going to publish a PDF-file with all relevant information.
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