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The famous regional elections are on Sunday in the Saarland with the great reason that Olaf Scholz's Social Democratic Party is already suffering from a long period of weakness and that the CDU conservative will have to undertake his particular desire in Merkel's succession war. The radical and rising star of the SPD, Kevin Kühnert, hastened to highlight the national reading of the 43.6% result and has spoken of "an incredible tailwind" ahead of the regional elections still pending this year.
The polling stations in Saarland had barely closed and the surprisingly clear victory of the Social Democrats had been announced when the SPD general secretary, Kevin Kühnert, delivered an analysis that contrasted with the official language of the CDU.
While the Christian Democrats achieved a "local result" of their own disastrous performance, Kühnert saw a national signal.
"That gives an incredible tail pod," he says with a view to the next elections. The candidate and future regional president, Anke Rehlinger, was congratulated for the fact that the SPD saw more Bundesländer, rejected the tie at 7 with the CDU, and the analysts agreed that this electoral victory shows that the Social Democrats did not win in the general elections last September as the result of an isolated slip, despite the fact that victory was much narrower with only 25.7% of the votes and that the success of Olaf Scholz is the beginning of a career, of the "social democratic decade" that the chancellor proclaimed after his election.
The voters of the Saarland pronounced themselves precisely when the "traffic light coalition", which Scholz formed with liberals and greens, was celebrating its hundredth day in Berlin. Assuming that the German press often repeats the question "Where is Scholz?", due to the chancellor's limited exposure, his presence in the negotiations to try to prevent the invasion of Ukraine and his defense of German interests in the EU, NATO and the G7 have resulted in the majority of Germans being very satisfied with their government and this satisfaction has manifested itself in the Saarland, which has always been difficult terrain for the SPD. The CDU had been in the regional government for 22 years, in the 2017 elections, Rehlinger obtained 29,6% and the conservative Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer was able to continue governing. Conservative Thomas Hans, who won 28,3% of the vote and lost 12,4% from the 2017 result, decided that he was sober about his own reduction.
