Conservatives win plurality in Germany's most populous region | Video

Rhede, May 15 (EFE/EPA).- The regional elections in Nordrhein-Westfalen (NRW), the most populous "Land" (or state) in Germany, have provided a new warning for the ruling Social Democratic Party of Chancellor Olaf Scholz, which ran up against the local strength of the Christian Democrats and skyrocketing support for the Greens.

The Christian Democratic Union (CDU), the party that currently heads the regional coalition with the liberal Free Democrats, obtained 35.2 per cent of the votes in the regional election, an increase of 2 points since the 2017 balloting, according to projections made public by ZDF public television an hour after the polls closed on Sunday.

Scholz's SPD obtained 27.7 per cent of the votes, down 3 per cent from the last regional election, a result that is perhaps not so bad compared with the plunge in popularity suffered by the chancellor's party a week ago in the small northern Land of Schleswig-Holstein, where they dropped to a historic low. (Camera: SASCHA STEINBACH).

FOOTAGE SHOWS A POLLING STATION AND THE VOTING OF THE CONSERVATIVE CANDIDATE, HENDRIK WÜST, IN RHEDE, GERMANY.

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Date: 16/05/2022 12:00 (UTC)
Credit: EFE
Source: EFE
Topic: Politics » Election
Type: Ready-to-use
Duration: 61 seconds
Reference: 7001167718
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