Outcome may put strain on ruling coalition and hint at likely 2025 presidential contender
Two German states held elections on Sunday at the halfway mark of Olaf Scholz’s unpopular national government, with polls showing the centre-right opposition well ahead and Germany’s interior minister facing an uphill struggle in her campaign to become governor of her home region.
About 9.4 million people were eligible to vote for the new state legislature in Bavaria and about 4.3 million in neighbouring Hesse, a region that includes Germany’s financial capital, Frankfurt. Both states are led by the country’s main opposition Union bloc, made up of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and the Bavaria-only Christian Social Union (CSU).
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