{"id":114259,"date":"2023-05-15T09:10:34","date_gmt":"2023-05-15T06:10:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/scholzs-social-democrats-win-bremen-state-vote-greens-slump\/"},"modified":"2023-05-15T09:10:34","modified_gmt":"2023-05-15T06:10:34","slug":"scholzs-social-democrats-win-bremen-state-vote-greens-slump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/news\/scholzs-social-democrats-win-bremen-state-vote-greens-slump\/","title":{"rendered":"Scholz\u2019s Social Democrats win Bremen state vote, Greens slump"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\" data-trp-original-action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button\" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114259\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"trp-form-language\" value=\"en\"\/><\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\nChancellor Olaf Scholz&#8217;s Social Democrats won an election on Sunday in Germany&#8217;s smallest state, Bremen, in a vote that could give a modest lift to the centre-left party which has seen its popularity slide nationally. The state is not deemed a political bellwether for other parts of Germany given its specific characteristics and its small size with around 683,000 inhabitants in Bremen city and its Bremerhaven North Sea port.<\/p>\n<p>By contrast, the states of Bavaria and Hesse, which will hold elections in October, together comprise nearly a quarter of Germany&#8217;s population of 83.2 million. Still, the traditional SPD stronghold &#8211; a car hub that is turning into a key port for the growing offshore wind industry &#8211; is the first federal state to hold a fresh election this year. Projected results published by the local statistics office put the SPD in pole position on 29.5%, up 4.6 percentage points from the last election in 2019 when it suffered a bitter loss to the conservatives. Despite the defeat four years ago, it was still able to retain the mayorship after forming a coalition with the environmentalist Greens and far-left Left party.<\/p>\n<p>Sunday&#8217;s result, if confirmed, would be around 10 percentage points better than the SPD is polling on a national level where it has slumped since the 2019 federal election amid a cost-of-living crisis in the wake of the Ukraine war. &#8220;The number one in Bremen &#8211; that&#8217;s us,&#8221; said Mayor Andreas Bovenschulte, whose popularity contributed to the win. The conservatives came in second place in Bremen on 25.8%, down 0.9 percentage points on their 2019 result, according to the projected results. Meanwhile both parties partnering with the SPD in Scholz&#8217;s federal coalition, the Greens and liberal Free Democrats (FDP), suffered losses in Bremen. The Greens took the worst hit with 11.8%, down 5.6 percentage points. &#8220;We need to look at what we did wrong,&#8221; said Omid Nouripour, Greens co-chief, saying this was also a reflection on the party&#8217;s performance at national level.<\/p>\n<p>The party has come under fire in recent months for its energy and climate policies &#8211; in particular a law banning most new oil and gas heating systems from 2024 &#8211; that critics say will put too great a burden on households and are not sufficiently thought-through. Lately it has also faced accusations of cronyism in the Greens-run economy ministry, which it rejects. The pro-business Free Democrats scored 5.2%, down 0.7 percentage points, according to the projected results, and only marginally above the 5% threshold to enter parliament &#8211; a hurdle it failed to clear in three state votes. The Left party scored 11.5% and the right-wing populist party Buerger in Wut (Citizens in Rage) 9.5%. Support for the Buerger in Wut jumped after the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), which has surged in nationwide polls to 15-17%, was absent from the ballot in Bremen due to internal divisions.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/europe\/bremen-election-may-boost-scholzs-slumping-social-democrats-2023-05-14\/\">Reuters<\/a> <\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/vaufien\/scholzs-social-democrats-win-bremen-state-vote-greens-slump\/\">Scholz&#8217;s Social Democrats win Bremen state vote, Greens slump<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[9978,1038,9979,9980,606,607,608],"class_list":["post-114259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-bremen","tag-germany","tag-green-slumps","tag-social-democtats","tag-vau_viikkokatsaus","tag-vauen","tag-vaufien"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114259\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}