Scholz's SPD won the Brandenburg election with 30.9 percent of the vote
The Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) of Chancellor Olaf Scholz wins the elections to the Land Parliament of Brandenburg. This follows from the preliminary voting results published on the website of the regional election commission on Sunday, September 22.
"According to preliminary official results provided by the state's election commissioner, the SPD, which has governed the land around the capital Berlin since reunification in 1990, won 30.9 percent of the vote, ahead of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AdG) party with 29.2 percent of the vote," the Reuters piece said.
The agency notes that the SPD's success may give Scholz a small respite in party discussions about his suitability to run again as a candidate for chancellor in federal elections scheduled for next September.
However, it is unlikely to give him or his party much support, given that the incumbent SPD Brandenburg state premier Dietmar Woidke distanced himself from Scholz during the campaign and criticized federal government policies.
According to the exit poll, three-quarters of those who voted for the SPD did so not out of conviction, but to keep the far-right AdG out of government.
At the same time, against the background of Germany's economic and migration problems, the approval rating of the Chancellor and the Social Democratic Party in the country is falling rapidly. In regional elections in the federal states of Saxony and Thuringia, the SPD showed record low results, while the far-right Alternative for Germany became one of the most popular parties among voters. The votes gained allow the party to participate in the formation of state governments.
On September 13, Alexander Kamkin, a senior researcher at the Center for German Studies at the Institute of European Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, told Izvestia that the SPD is going through a period of political failures and anti-records associated, among other things, with the personality of its leader Olaf Scholz. And on the same day, The Financial Times reported that Scholz's low ratings have forced the SPD to consider removing him from the list of candidates for national parliamentary elections in 2025.
At the beginning of 2024 , the rating of the SPD, of which incumbent Chancellor Olaf Scholz is a member, plummeted to a record low - only 13% of the total population was ready to vote for it.
