The CDU’s top candidate in the state elections in Brandenburg also wants to use his party’s result to push for the end of the traffic light government at the federal level. “Our first mission on September 22nd is to turn off the traffic lights in Berlin and turn common sense back on,” said Jan Redmann at an election campaign event in Brandenburg an der Havel. The signals from Thuringia and Saxony were ignored. “The signal in Potsdam will not be ignored in Berlin,” said Redmann.
The three traffic light parties SPD, Greens and FDP had miserable results in Sunday’s elections. The Free Democrats only achieved values of around one percent in both states and thus missed out on a place in the state parliaments by a wide margin. The SPD had its worst results to date in both state elections, in Thuringia even the worst result in a state election ever with 6.1 percent.
Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) and the party leadership had described the results as bitter, but at the same time expressed relief that the SPD had managed to return to the state parliaments, contrary to individual polls before the election.
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