Christian Democratic Union (CDU) Chancellor Angela Merkel has now suffered the worst defeat ever in regional elections in the city-state of Hamburg. The opposition Social Democrats (SPD) has now won the election with 49.5% of the vote, compared with 20.5% of the CDU, according to exit polls polls. With these results, the Christian Democrats lost three seats in the Senate.
The Greens have risen as the third force, with 11.5%, 7% Left and the Liberals by 6.5%, according to figures released by the first chain of ARD German television after the polls closed election. These results confirm what the polls predicted and represents an important advance SPD Olaf Scholz, who won the 2008 election 34% of the vote.
In those elections, the CDU won 42.6% support of voters. Hamburg is the first of seven live German regional elections this year. The loss of three seats in the Bundesrat will complicate the work of Merkel's coalition to pass legislation at the federal level. The Bunderast have to approve about half of the laws passed by the Bundestag.
The Hanseatic city voters, who like Bremen and Berlin has the status of the Land, has decided to end the 10-year hiatus mayoral Democrats and the Socialists have been returned to its traditional stronghold in the north. The defeat of Hamburg, Merkel's hometown, also sends a signal to voters, especially in the southwestern region of Baden-Wuerttemberg, where the CDU also in danger of losing power in March.
"The winners will be hoping that these results will help to mobilize their supporters in other states, that is the message tonight," said Karl-Rudolf Korte, a political analyst at the University of Duisburg, television ZDF. Merkel's coalition, who is recovering after a sharp drop poplaridad last year, is plagued by several scandals, including the Defense Minister, Karl Theodor zu Guttenberg, wrapped in a murky affair on his doctoral thesis - rejects accusations, "and the departure of head of the Bundesbank, Axel Weber, who was emerging as a strong candidate to head the European Central Bank.
Hamburg, the province with more millionaires in Germany has come to trust their government to SPD in search of identity. The candidate Scholz, labor lawyer who was Minister of Labour between 2007 and 2009, maintains strict control over the match and led a campaign focusing largely on regional issues.
Hamburg was ruled by the SPD for 44 years before losing power a decade ago against the CDU. 
The Greens have risen as the third force, with 11.5%, 7% Left and the Liberals by 6.5%, according to figures released by the first chain of ARD German television after the polls closed election. These results confirm what the polls predicted and represents an important advance SPD Olaf Scholz, who won the 2008 election 34% of the vote.
In those elections, the CDU won 42.6% support of voters. Hamburg is the first of seven live German regional elections this year. The loss of three seats in the Bundesrat will complicate the work of Merkel's coalition to pass legislation at the federal level. The Bunderast have to approve about half of the laws passed by the Bundestag.
The Hanseatic city voters, who like Bremen and Berlin has the status of the Land, has decided to end the 10-year hiatus mayoral Democrats and the Socialists have been returned to its traditional stronghold in the north. The defeat of Hamburg, Merkel's hometown, also sends a signal to voters, especially in the southwestern region of Baden-Wuerttemberg, where the CDU also in danger of losing power in March.
"The winners will be hoping that these results will help to mobilize their supporters in other states, that is the message tonight," said Karl-Rudolf Korte, a political analyst at the University of Duisburg, television ZDF. Merkel's coalition, who is recovering after a sharp drop poplaridad last year, is plagued by several scandals, including the Defense Minister, Karl Theodor zu Guttenberg, wrapped in a murky affair on his doctoral thesis - rejects accusations, "and the departure of head of the Bundesbank, Axel Weber, who was emerging as a strong candidate to head the European Central Bank.
Hamburg, the province with more millionaires in Germany has come to trust their government to SPD in search of identity. The candidate Scholz, labor lawyer who was Minister of Labour between 2007 and 2009, maintains strict control over the match and led a campaign focusing largely on regional issues.
Hamburg was ruled by the SPD for 44 years before losing power a decade ago against the CDU.
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