Eh. It was a nationalism-fest, with Kohl being promoted as the “Chancellor of Unity”, the chant of the 1989 protests “We are the People” being changed into “We are one people”, prosperity being promised, etc., etc.
The SPD underperformed expectations, and the SED/PDS (and later just PDS) won in East Berlin, performed in double digits everywhere (within the east. The highest they got in the west is like 1,0% in Bremen), but the CDU got 53% in Saxony. That place is a reactionary hotbed to this day, which is a shame. Leipzig, Dresden and Görlitz are really nice cities.
Eh. It was a nationalism-fest, with Kohl being promoted as the “Chancellor of Unity”, the chant of the 1989 protests “We are the People” being changed into “We are one people”, prosperity being promised, etc., etc.
The SPD underperformed expectations, and the SED/PDS (and later just PDS) won in East Berlin, performed in double digits everywhere (within the east. The highest they got in the west is like 1,0% in Bremen), but the CDU got 53% in Saxony. That place is a reactionary hotbed to this day, which is a shame. Leipzig, Dresden and Görlitz are really nice cities.