News regarding politics & elections: Tomorrow May 7th elections for Landtagswahlen in Schleswig-Holstein. And second round of the elections in France. On May 14th, the next Landtagswahlen in Nordrhein-Westfalen. These are the last two Landtagswahlen in Germany before the Bundestagswahl on September 24th. Both Bundesländer have currently a rot-grüne Koalition (SPD & GRÜNE) .
The outcome of these elections will then also have an impact on the German Bundesrat (which needs to approve new laws).

An OpEd of Süddeutsche with some thoughts whether or not people will vote just for their Bundesland or also vote to give a signal for the upcoming Bundestagswahl.

http://www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/foederalismus-welche-bedeutung-die-landtagswahlen-haben-1.3492210