Election today in the city of Berlin today (there are three city-states in Germany: Berlin, Bremen, and Hamburg for reference).
Polling from past week says that the CDU will come out ahead.....SPD will be five to seven points behind them.
What drives this election? The 21 September 2021 election in the city....fell apart. I would suggest two main causes: (1) a marathon was held on this Sunday and it made for various logistical problems. (2) Back in early 2021, the Covid vaccine came out and Berlin authorities made a deal if you volunteered to be a election-worker, you went to the front of the vax line. Well....lot of folks did that, and as August rolled around....a number of these vaxed-up people said 'no thanks'....refusing to be a poll-worker. This triggered a shortage of workers in various districts.
What's happened in the city since then....to frustrate people? I would suggest that the SPD-Green-Linke Party-led city.....has crapped-up a bit....angering residents....and driving more people toward the CDU Party.
Also, I'd add the events of Silvester 2022 (31 Dec), and the fact that still as of today....no serious charges against the people who threatened the police, or firemen for that evening.
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