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Hubert Aiwanger, the leader of Bavaria’s right-wing Free Voters (FW), cast his ballot in Rottenburg an der Laaber on Sunday.
The small rural town is to the northeast of Munich, home to around 8,000 people.
Aiwanger is also the deputy to state premier Markus Söder, with his Free Voters currently in coalition with the CSU in a right-of-center alliance.
“We are the providers of ideas and the tone-setters in this coalition,” Aiwanger said when voting. “I am convinced that voters will honor that.”
You can read about Aiwanger in more depth here.
His party is considered the likeliest candidate for Söder and the CSU to tap when seeking to set up another coalition government.
The party also appears to be in something of a three-way shootout to secure the second-most votes in the state, far behind the CSU.
Polls before voting day suggested that the Greens, the Free Voters and the far-right AfD could anticipate very similar levels of support, somewhere around the 15% mark. The Social Democrats, who often struggle in the conservative stronghold of Bavaria, were polling around 5% adrift of these three.
Despite holding up one ballot for the cameras, Aiwanger will also have had several to cast, as do all Bavarian voters this Sunday.
Voters are choosing both representatives for the state parliament and also municipal representation on local councils. For each of these votes, people are asked to submit two ballots — one directly for a preferred candidate in your specific constituency, and another for the party they wish to support at the wider state or district level. People are free to mix and match if they wish.
Voters in Bavaria, in particular, are facing a large ballot of candidates to choose from.
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