The conservatives of the German opposition chief Friedrich Merz were on the right track for a dull victory during a national election on Sunday, while the alternative for Germany almost doubled its support, the strongest projection for a Started from the far right since the Second World War, have shown projections.
Chancellor Olaf Scholz conceded the defeat for his center-left social democrats after what he called “a bitter electoral result”. The projections of the ARD and ZDF diffusers have shown that its party ended in third place, in its worst post-war result in a national parliamentary election.
It was not immediately clear how easy it will be for Merz to create a coalition government.
The election took place seven months earlier than originally after the unpopular coalition of Scholz collapsed in November, three years after a mandate which was increasingly spoiled by the intestine struggles. There was generalized dissatisfaction and not much enthusiasm for any of the candidates.
The projections, based on output surveys and partial count, have supported the Merz union block at just under 29% and an alternative for Germany, or AFD, at around 20% – doubly double sound result of 2021.
They supported Scholz’s social democrats at just over 16%, much lower than that of the last elections. The Greens Environmentalists, their outgoing government partners were around 12 to 13%.
Out of three small parties, one – the late left -left party – seemed certain to win seats in parliament with up to nine percent of the voices. Two other parties, the free business democrats and the Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance, have hovered over the threshold of the support of five percent necessary to win seats.
Whether Merz will need one or two partners to form a coalition will depend on the number of parties in Parliament.
“I am aware of responsibility,” said Merz. “I am also aware of the magnitude of the task that awaits us now. I approach it with the greatest respect, and I know that it will not be easy.”
“The world there does not expect us, and it does not expect long-term discussion and coalition negotiations,” he told supporters. “We must now become able to act quickly.”
The AFD candidate for Chancellor Alice Weidel said that “we have become the second strongest force”.
She said that her party was “open to coalition negotiations” with the Merz party, and that “if not, no change in policy is possible in Germany”. But Merz has excluded several times and categorically working with AFD, just like other traditional parties.
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The secretary general of the social democrats, Matthias Mirsch, suggested that defeat was not a surprise after three years of unpopular government. “This election has not been lost in the past eight weeks,” he said.
The election was dominated by concerns about the stagnation of the largest economy in Europe and by pressure to limit migration. It took place in a context of growing uncertainty over the future of Ukraine and the European Alliance with the United States.
Germany is the most populous country in the European Union of 27 countries and a member of NATO. It is the second largest supplier of weapons in Ukraine, after the United States, it will be at the heart to shape the continent’s response to the challenges of years to come, including the policy of confrontation and trade in Confrontation of the Trump administration.
More than 59 million people in the country of 84 million people were eligible to elect the 630 members of the lower room of the Parliament, the Bundestag, which will take place under the glass dome of the historic Berlin Reichstag building.
