After the SPD’s disappointing performance in the Baden‑Württemberg state election, General Secretary Tim Klüssendorf said he does not expect any fallout for the federal coalition government. “We have a clear timetable” he told the Phoenix television network. “We have big reforms to push through this year, and we must do that regardless of the state election results. No one can influence the outcome positively or negatively – it’s our duty”.
Klüssendorf added that the election outcome still needs to be analyzed carefully. He noted that 60 percent of SPD voters said the party focuses more on the unemployed than on the working middle class. According to him, the party had just corrected the citizen’s stipend a week earlier.
He highlighted that Union voters assigned even larger values to the CDU/CSU coalition. “They say that 80 percent believe the government is not doing a good job, yet they still give the union an extra five percentage points, bringing their share to 30 percent”. He warned that drawing straightforward conclusions from these figures would be misleading.