The conservatives of German opposition, Friedrich Merz, were on course in a national election on Sunday, while alternative for Germany almost doubled support.
Chancellor Olaf Scholz admitted a defeat for his social democrats at the center after he described “a bitter election result”. Forecasts for the ARD and ZDF broadcaster showed that his party took third place, which led to a national parliamentary election in her worst post -war time.
It was not immediately clear how easy it would be for Merz to put together a coalition government.
The election took place seven months earlier than originally planned after the unpopular coalition of Scholz had collapsed in November three years after a term that was increasingly affected by infighting. There was widespread dissatisfaction and not much enthusiasm for one of the candidates.
The forecasts based on exit surveys and partially count support Merz ‘Union Bloc to almost 29 percent and alternative for Germany or AfD with around 20 percent – approximately the result of their result of 2021.
They support the Scholz Social Democrats with a little more than 16 percent, far lower than in the last elections. The environmentalists, their remaining partners in the outgoing government, had about 12 to 13 percent.
Of three smaller parties, a-die left left party with security seemed to be won in parliament with up to nine percent of the votes. Two other parties, the Pro Business-Free Democrats and the Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance, floated around the threshold of five percent supported support, which are necessary to win seats.
Regardless of whether Merz needs one or two partners to form a coalition, it depends on how many parties get into parliament.
“I am aware of responsibility,” said Merz. “I am also aware of the scale of the task that is now ahead of us. I am closer with the greatest respect and know that it will not be easy.”
“The world out there is not waiting for us and it is not waiting for boring coalition talks and negotiations,” he told cheering followers. “We have to be able to act quickly again.”
AfD’s candidate for Chancellor Alice Weidel said that “we have become the second world of strength”.
She said that her party “is open to coalition negotiations with Merz ‘party and that” otherwise no change of policy is possible in Germany “. But Merz has repeatedly and categorically worked with AfD, as did other mainstream parties.
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The Secretary General of the Social Democrats, Matthias Miersch, suggested that the defeat was no surprise after three years of the unpopular government. “This choice has not been lost in the past eight weeks,” he said.
The choice was dominated by concerns about the years of stagnation in the largest economy in Europe and the pressure on the containment of migration. Against a background of the growing uncertainty about the future of Ukraine and Europe’s Allianz with the United States.
Germany is the most populous country in the 27-nation-European Union and a leading member of NATO. It was the second largest weapon supplier of Ukraine, after the United States it will be of central importance to shape the reaction of the continent to the challenges of the coming years, including the confrontational foreign and trade policy of the Trump government.
More than 59 million people in 84 million people were entitled to choose the 630 members of Parliament’s lower house, the Bundestag, who will take their seats under the glass dome of the Reichstag building Berlin.
