One day, five locations and two direct candidates for BTW 21
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Already in the morning it was the turn of the constituency south and in the end only knew one candidate. With Sören Pellmann, the Left again put on 80.6 percent of the politician who, surprisingly and for the first time since 1991, was able to win his Leipzig constituency 153 directly and as close as possible with around 1,000 votes ahead of a CDU candidate.
With this rather strong party vote in the back, the question should also be about 2021: Pellmann or CDU? In this case, the Christian Democrats send a woman into the race, city councilor Jessica Heller succeeds Thomas Feist, who was unsuccessful in 2017, in the south of Leipzig this year.
Nina Treu experienced even more backing when she was nominated for the constituency north (152) with an election result of 93.4 percent with only five no votes and three abstentions with no opposing candidate. However, it will probably need this support especially during the election campaign.
In the north of Leipzig, the expert for the new economy meets an electoral district that has been in CDU hands for over a decade and has to compete there against the Bundestag member Jens Lehmann, who was nominated again last year.
Bearing in mind that there are no direct duels between the CDU and the left in both constituencies, but rather the Christian Democrats with an AfD that is increasingly weakening in Leipzig and the left with the Greens and the SPD have one or the other overlap, are in close results in each case.
Especially since there is still a PARTY in Leipzig that this morning at Plant 2, used to advertise cheekily with the slogan “Why not vote left?” At the left at the entrance.
He has already proven that Pellmann can win elections for the city council and the Bundestag. What he was able to achieve from the opposition in Berlin, he says in the video.
And Nina Treu gave the impression today that she will bring some exciting ecological, social and economic topics into the election campaign (see interview). An orientation that could also please Green voters and that extends well into the progressive circles of the SPD.
Interview with Nina Treu after the nomination
Video:LZ
Interview with Sören Pellmann after the nomination
Video: LZ
Speeches by the candidates
Video: LZ
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