The evening sun rises on the German Bundestag building with the engraving “De Deutschen Volick.
Fabian Sumer Photo alliance Gety pictures
BERLIN – The Christian Democratic Union and the Allied Christian Social Union won the largest share of votes in the German federal elections on Sunday, according to the exit polls from the German broadcaster ZDF.
This places the main candidate of the party, Fredchic Mirz, in his main position to take over the position of Olaf Schuls as a consultant to the largest economy in Europe.
CDU-CSU won 28.5 % of the sounds, with the far-right AFD in second place with 20 % and the Democratic Democratic Democratic Party in third place with 16.5 %, according to ZDF exit data data.
“We won it because CDU and CSU worked well together, and we prepared very well for these elections and also to take over the ruling responsibility,” said Mirz, according to the translation of CNBC. . “It was a great campaign.”
He acknowledged that the challenges will not be easy to address, noting that the time has now come for political groups to hold talks and establish a new government as soon as possible.
“It is a bitter electoral result of the Social Democratic Party. It is also an electoral defeat, [and] Schools said at the party headquarters, where he thanked the holders and his supporters, that he should be said once clearly, from the beginning, given the conclusion of such. Better performance and this “this time as a result of the elections is bad, so I also bear the responsibility of this election result.”
Schulz also congratulated MERZ and CDU-CSU on their voting results.
The CDU and its regional brotherly party were leading the Christian Social Union in the period before the elections, with the support of dipping a little before voting. The far -right AFD was in second place, followed by SPD.
This represents a decrease in the support of SPD, which ranked first during 2021 Elections, followed by CDU/CSU. AFD ranked fourth at the time.
The Germans made two votes on Sunday, one of them to elect a member of Parliament directly to represent their electoral district and one of the party’s list. The second vote identified the composition of the German parliament, the Bundestag, where the parties send its candidates to Berlin to ensure acting.
The parties should also meet the 5 % threshold to be able to obtain seats in Parliament. It is important, that groups that tend to insurance around this level of votes often become the so -called alliance building after the elections.
The main focus on elections was how to remove the smaller parties, which may affect both the alliance building and the ability of the government to reform the constitutional rules, for example about spending and debt. They will need a two -thirds majority to do so.
Observers were closely monitoring the far -right AFD performance amid a wider -right political transformation throughout the Western world.
The elections come at a turbulent time for Germany, politically and economically.
Sunday’s vote is the fourth early election in the country’s history and occurred after the former ruling coalition of the Democratic Democratic Party, the Green Party and the Free Democratic Party in late last year collapsed in another scarcity of local policy. Long -term differences with deep roots between economic, financial and budget policies led to the actual separation of the union.
Such policies will also top the agenda when it comes to the process of building the post -election coalition and then governance, especially because of the slow German economy, which was contracted in 2023 and 2024. Exports, the home building crisis and difficulties in the main auto sector.
The new ruling coalition will also need a violent local debate about immigration, the growing popularity in the far right, and the broader tensions between Europe and the United States, as President Donald Trump advanced his commercial policies and the Ukraine war in his second term.