Social Democrats triumph in Bremen state election, Greens suffer major setback.
Olaf Scholz's Social Democrats won the state election in Bremen, Germany's smallest state, with projected results putting them in pole position on 29.5%, up 4.6 percentage points from the last election in 2019. The Greens took the worst hit with 11.8%, down 5.6 percentage points, while the liberal Free Democrats scored 5.2%, down 0.7 percentage points. The conservatives came in second place in Bremen on 25.8%, down 0.9 percentage points on their 2019 result.