SPD Demands in Rhineland-Palatinate State Parliament

Electoral Defeat in the State of Rhineland-Palatinate Leaves the SPD Searching for Answers

Biggest Loser in the State Elections: SPD

The SPD in Rhineland-Palatinate is demanding its own bill in the state parliament, which its own people had recently rejected. The Social Democrats had suffered a bitter defeat in the state elections in March, losing more than 10 percent and falling to third place behind the CDU and the Greens.

Now the SPD wants to submit its own draft law to the state parliament, which provides for an increase in the state's own revenue of 1.5 billion euros. The money should be used to finance investments in education, infrastructure and climate protection.

However, the CDU and the Greens criticized the SPD's proposal as unrealistic. The state government had already presented a budget for the coming year that was balanced without tax increases.

The SPD's demand is seen as an attempt to regain lost trust among voters. In the state elections, the party had suffered particularly heavy losses in its traditional strongholds. The SPD is now trying to show that it is still the party of the working class and that it is fighting for their interests.