Voters will head to the polls in the southwestern state of Baden-Wuerttemberg, a prosperous hub of Germany's flagship auto sector with a population of 11.2 million. The CDU, a year after winning national elections, hopes to snatch first place in Baden-Wuerttemberg back from the Greens, who have won the last two state elections. Merz's party until recently enjoyed large poll leads in the state but these have shrunk in recent months. The Greens' lead candidate is Cem Ozdemir, 60, who, if he wins, would become Germany's first state premier of Turkish heritage. Such a result would be "sensational" for the party, he said, and the best it had ever scored in a western German state.

Source: Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha March 08, 2026 03:07 UTC