It is a crash the likes of which the Greens, spoiled by success, have not experienced for a long time. The loss of votes of 5.5 percentage points in the state elections in Bremen could now have similar consequences for the party as after the election in Berlin. After their disappointing performance, the loss of power followed, because the election loser SPD said goodbye to the failure model of red-green-red and offered itself to the CDU as a partner. Ahead of the exploratory talks in Bremen, which begin this Friday, there is a much more pleasant starting position for the SPD on the Weser.
As the clear winner of the election, SPD mayor Andreas Bovenschulte can choose his partner(s). Whether he will again opt for the Greens and the Left, he has left open. With the CDU as its junior partner, the SPD twice won more than 40 percent of the vote in the era of his predecessor Henning Scherf.
In their current constitution, the Bremen Greens do not seem capable of governing. Her hapless top candidate Maike Schaefer and with her the state leadership have resigned. In Bremerhaven, the top candidate there, Sülmez Çolak, even resigned from the party, combined with a reckoning that is also aimed at the Greens in the federal government. Contrary to what is claimed in its election slogan, the party does not think of everyone. Habeck's climate policy is probably also meant.