The SPD clearly won the state elections in Saarland. According to the 6 p.m. forecasts from ARD and ZDF, the Social Democrats with their top candidate Anke Rehlinger were far ahead of the CDU, which had previously ruled under Prime Minister Tobias Hans. The Union suffered a historic defeat on Sunday.
According to the ARD and ZDF forecasts, the Social Democrats will get 43 to 44 percent of the votes and the Christian Democrats 27.5. AfD, Greens and FDP have to worry about entering the state parliament because their results fluctuate around the 5 percent hurdle. The AfD reaches 5.5 percent. According to the forecasts, the Greens are 5.5 to 6 percent, the Free Democrats 4.8 to 5.0 percent. The left is likely to miss the entry into the state parliament with 2.5 to 2.7 percent.
This marks a change in the office of head of government: The previous Deputy Prime Minister, the 45-year-old Economics Minister Rehlinger, now has a good chance of becoming Prime Minister. Your SPD was recently the smaller partner in a grand coalition with the CDU.