SPD suffers historic low in Baden-Württemberg state election

The Social Democratic Party (SPD) received about 5.5% of the vote in the Baden-Württemberg state election, a historically poor result for the party. Several headlines describe the SPD as having become a minor party in the state.

Friedrich Merz, the leader of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), declared his party would win the election and said the Free Democratic Party (FDP) was politically dead. He also accused the Greens of running a campaign against CDU candidate Manuel Hagel.