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
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:
At noon, the office for statistics and election is going to publish a PDF-file with all relevant information.
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 voters | 13 239 170 | 100,0 |
| voters | 8 334 561 | 63,0 |
| invalid votes | 91 189 | 1,1 |
| valid votes | 8 243 372 | 100,0 |
| therefrom | ||
| SPD | 3 059 074 | 37,1 |
| CDU | 3 695 806 | 44,8 |
| FDP | 508 354 | 6,2 |
| Green | 509 219 | 6,2 |
| REP | 67 282 | 0,8 |
| PDS | 72 982 | 0,9 |
Diet election on 14.05.2000 | ||
| number | % | |
| eligible voters | 13 061 265 | 100,0 |
| voters | 7 409 399 | 56,7 |
| invalid votes | 72 988 | 1,0 |
| valid votes | 7 336 411 | 100,0 |
| therefrom | ||
| SPD | 3 143 179 | 42,8 |
| CDU | 2 712 176 | 37,0 |
| FDP | 721 558 | 9,8 |
| Green | 518 295 | 7,1 |
| REP | 83 296 | 1,1 |
| PDS | 79 934 | 1,1 |
At noon, the office for statistics and election is going to publish a PDF-file with all relevant information.
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