Friedrich Merz's CDU/CSU Union won the elections in Germany with 29% , according to the first exit poll given by the public television ARD. Data confirmed by the first projections, which give CDU-CSU (at 28.6%). The far right is flying, with AfD at 20.4%, and then SPD collapses (16.3%), followed by the Greens (12.3%) and Linke (8.5%). Both the liberals and the group of Sahra Wagenknecht (BSW) remain out, just below the threshold (5%), for which we will have to wait for the final results.
The future government coalition also depends on this outcome: the more parties are represented in the Bundestag, the more complicated the path to a coalition between two political forces will be. The projections of the second German channel instead give the BSW at 5% and the FDP just below the threshold (4.7%).
« The data speaks clearly: the Union has won. The traffic light has been liquidated and the voters
" They want Friedrich Merz to be Chancellor ." This was stated by CDU Secretary General Carsten Linnemann, commenting on the first exit polls with Ard in Germany.
Alice Weidel, the far-right candidate for chancellor of Alternative fuer Deutschland (AfD), rejoices after the exit poll data in Germany and speaks of "a historic result, we have doubled our votes". She then added: " We will always be ready to be part of a government that wants to implement the will of the people ", the words in front of the party militants immediately after the publication of the first election data. "We have run an extraordinary election campaign. It was beautiful. We are the only party that has doubled the consensus compared to the last time. They wanted to halve us: the opposite happened".
SPD collapses, with the Social Democrats falling to 16% at the polls compared to 25.7% in 2021. "Tonight's is a bitter defeat. And this must be said clearly. But on the basis of this result we must move forward together", the words of Olaf Scholz.
(Online Union)