German Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Social Democrats (SPD) suffered a setback Sunday in a rerun of the Berlin state election.
The conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) picked up the largest share of the vote at 28.2%, leaving the SPD in a tie for second place with the environment-friendly Greens, each with 18.4%.
The result is the worst for the SPD in the post-war era in Berlin. In 2021, the center-left party received 21.4% of the vote.
The SPD is currently in a coalition with the Greens and the Left Party in the German capital, led by 44-year-old Mayor Franziska Giffey — the city’s first elected female mayor.
For the CDU, the result is the best in 20 years, potentially giving them 48 seats in the 147-seat Berlin state parliament, with the SPD and the Greens each taking 31.
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