Chancellor Olaf Scholz's Social Democrats were on track to win an election in Germany's smallest state, the city of Bremen, on Sunday in a vote that could give a modest lift to the centre-left party after its popularity slid nationally.
Bremen is not deemed a political bellwether for other parts of Germany given its specific characteristics as an industrial port city and its small size - it has just 570,000 inhabitants.
Still, the traditional SPD stronghold - a car hub that is turning into a key port for the growing offshore wind industry - is the first federal state to hold an election this year. Sunday's result, if confirmed, would be around 10 percentage points better than the SPD is polling on a national level where it has slumped since the 2019 federal election amid a cost of living crisis in the wake of the Ukraine war.The conservatives came in second place in Bremen on 24.5%, down 2.2 percentage points on their 2019 result, according to the ZDF poll.
The ZDF poll put the Greens on 12%, down 5.4 percentage points, and the pro-business Free Democrats on 5%, down 0.9 percentage points.
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