The Social Democratic Party took 38 percent in Bremen, a city-state that includes the car-exporting port of Bremerhaven, to cement their 64-year hold on Germany’s smallest state, exit polls on ZDF television showed today. The Greens won 23 percent to take second place and continue their coalition with the SPD of the past four years. Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union slid to 21.5 percent, its worst result since 1959.
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| Bremens Bürgermeister Jens Böhrnsen (SPD) umarmt am Sonntagabend seine Lebensgefährtin Birgit Rüst |
