More than 70 years, the SPD ruled in Bremen – longer than the CSU in Bavaria. But now the social Democrats could be in the smallest state, for the first time, only the second strongest force.
Bremen, this small patch of earth on the river Weser, has long been regarded as a heartland of social democracy. On election days, overlooked for decades, the red beam of the high bills always all the other, mostly with a lot of distance. The Bremen city hall without SPD-head of government was hardly imaginable, just like the Buckingham Palace without the Queen.
Now the people of Bremen will vote on the 26. May decide who is to draw in the coming years, the country. One might suspect that the Federal government holds wide interest in the answer to this question within reasonable limits. Especially since on the day of the elections, the European election is pending. However, the citizenship of choice is more than just a vote in the smallest state. Your output could be the Symbol for the position of the social democracy in Germany.
in fact, the party could at 26. May lose their Nimbus, always the strongest force, for the first time in over 70 years. According to recent polls, a social-democratic twilight of the gods is on the horizon in Bremen. In Bremen trend, the CDU came to 27 percent, the SPD on 24 per cent.
mayor Sieling fight, but the polls don’t look good for him.
head-to-head race of the top candidates
While mayor Carsten Sieling still far ahead of the current survey of his party’s values at the Federal level. But the truth also belongs to His predecessor, Jens Böhrnsen achieved in the area of citizenship-election in 2015, almost 33 percent, and this result was taken in the Bremen SPD with horror. It is the worst SPD was value in Bremen, in since 1946.
Now Sieling, which was perceived in the past, often as pale and smooth tread, it might be, on election day even worse. And, although the CDU has sent to your top candidate Carsten Meyer-Heder really no eloquent charismatic in the Ring.
With the preparation of the successful IT-entrepreneur, Meyer-Heder, the Union set itself deliberately to a Non-politician, probably because they saw in their own ranks themselves are no Alternatives. Meyer-Heder joined only after his nomination the party and is not tired to emphasize, that he is a political newcomer. The town hall he wanted to run his company. Bremen need a “Manager”, his Mantra.
For questions, according to specific political projects Verga he loppierte in its responses, the one or the other Time, was sometimes uncertain. Instead, he took in the election campaign primarily on the magic of a fresh start. With this tactic, the CDU, the SPD was carried out first in percentage on the grill, and overtook them in the meantime, even.
CDU-candidate Meyer-Heder makes it clear which Note he gives the SPD.
SPD-root voters belong to the past
For the party researchers Andreas Klee is clear why the social Democrats their supremacy in their old stronghold, have lost. The typical SPD-root voters, there is hardly any. “In the big Bremen is Operated, the Daimler works or in the case of Airbus, the employees nowadays in the meantime to the upper-middle-class and have other interests than they used to,” says Klee.
And workers were in precarious employment either did not choose or your voice on the left or right edge of the place. To operate “in this area, clientele policy, was in Bremen as the financial plight of the country is simply no money there.”
Lack of financial resources is also the cause for one of the big issues in the election campaign. In the comparison of the Federal States of Bremen in the field of education is holding the red lantern. Dilapidated schools, lessons in failure, too little teachers. The Status of the conclusion of the light could not be placed in a myriad of educational studies, still, to chalk many of the red-green coalition.
