The German social-democratic party SPD clearly won the March 27 election in the Saar region, the first electoral test since Olaf Scholz became chancellor, according to exit polls.
According to an Infratest Dimap estimate for the public channel ARD, the Chancellor’s party would collect 43% of the vote, against 27.5% for the Christian Democrats of the CDU, at the head for more than 20 years of this small region of the country. west of Germany.
The Social Democrats of the SPD, at the head of the coalition in power since the beginning of December, would thus gain more than 13 points compared to the previous election in 2017 in this Land, the smallest in Germany after the cities of Berlin, Hamburg and Bream.
The curators of the UDCback in opposition after 16 years at the helm of the country, would lose 13 points compared to 2017 and would thus no longer be able to lead this region which they had controlled since 1999, according to this poll.
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The ecologists and the liberals of the FDP, also members of the coalition of Olaf Scholz, would reach them narrowly the bar of 5% necessary to sit in the regional Parliament. The far-right party AfD would also be able to sit with 5.5%, according to this poll.
On the other hand, the radical left Die Linke would lose more than 10 points in five years to reach only 2.7% in this Land which was for a time one of its strongholds.
This regional election is the first in a series of polls to be held in 2022, including one in May in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany’s most populous region.