Prime Minister of Schleswig-Holstein, Daniel Günther (CDU), is satisfied with the election result.
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keel Despite slight losses, the CDU is the clear winner of the local elections in Schleswig-Holstein. According to the preliminary state result, the party of Prime Minister Daniel Günther was 33.8 percent in the vote on Sunday. The SPD followed at a great distance in second place with 19.4 percent. The Greens came to 17.7 percent. The FDP landed at 6.8 percent and the SSW at 4.4 percent. The AfD was 8.1 percent.
Prime Minister Daniel Günther’s CDU did significantly worse than in last year’s state elections. At that time she got 43.4 percent. Günther was nevertheless satisfied with the result. “The lead over the political competition has even increased a bit,” he told the dpa.
The Greens in the home country of Federal Economics Minister Robert Habeck were obviously struggling with the federal political headwind. In the 2022 state elections, they pushed the SPD out of second place, which was their goal this time too. “We were able to improve nationwide compared to the last local elections, in Kiel, Ahrensburg and Ammersbek we have now even become the strongest force,” said state chairman Gazi Freitag.
The South Schleswig Voters’ Association (SSW) celebrated a notable success in Flensburg. There, the party of the Danish and Frisian minority was the strongest with 24.8 percent (plus 7.2 percentage points).
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