Like Kevin Kühnert on ZDF stepped in front of the cameras to witness the disastrous event European election results the SPD There was little to explain, little to disguise. Much work remains to be done, the Secretary General said. But just a few sentences later the lamentation began: “We must remember that these elections have brought special side effects,” Kühnert explained.
Defeat at the European whale: that is what the SPD, the Greens and the FDP say
More than one in five voters voted for parties that achieved less than five percent – this is what Kühnert expected from the coalition partner FDP Let’s just go to the ‘others’. Above all, the Secretary General wanted to say: with such a result in federal elections, things would not be so bad for the SPD. Because the votes of the others would be ignored due to the five percent limit, the SPD would get more seats than the poor result actually suggests.
This sugar-coating, which Kühnert repeated on the talk show “Caren Miosga,” is part of other excuses made by traffic light politicians on election night. The message: The election gossip was not due to our performance or our content;
Just like the SPD, the FDP is also trying to launder the results
Green Party leader Omid-Noripour put it very simply: “I think you have to recognize that it was a European election.” Would the party have done better in federal elections? This remains mere speculation on the part of the party chairman. Questions about the national elections also arose on Sunday the green recently not far above their European election result of around 12 percent.
Nouripour’s party colleague Terry Reintke blamed the poor performance on the general mood. 2019 was different than this year. In fact, other issues played a bigger role in the last European elections, such as the climate crisis. However, this is not given by God; the Greens simply could not raise issues that would benefit them.
Like Kühnert, FDP top candidate Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann also used the numbers to obscure the result. “We started with three percent and actually consistently had four percent,” she said, referring to the studies. In doing so, she chose a smart reference point for interpreting the five percent on election night. However, compared to the 11.5 percent in the 2021 federal election, there was a significant drop.