Despite its excellent election result, the far-right AfD party will not be in the German government coalition .
The winner of the elections and leader of the Christian Democrats, Friedrich Merz, will form a coalition with the Social Democrats . The two parties can form a narrow majority in the Bundestag thanks to the poor result of the liberals and BSW, who remained below 5% and will not enter Parliament: their seats will be divided among the other forces, allowing the CDU-CSU-SPD coalition to have the numbers to govern .
Let's start with the results: the Christian Democratic parties CDU and CSU obtained 28.6% of the votes , a result that was even narrower than expected (due to the boom of the far right, especially in the poorer east) but which allows Merz to become the new Chancellor, replacing the Social Democrat Olaf Scholz, whose movement, with 16.4%, recorded its worst result ever in the post-war period .
"I aim to form a coalition government by Easter", by April 20th, Merz said, claiming to have a "clear mandate to change the political course of the country". One thing is certain, he will not form an alliance with AFD, despite the flirtation during the election campaign and the constant appeals of Alice Weidel, leader of the far-right nationalist and anti-migrant party, which obtained a record result (20.8%) .
Weidel, appealing to Merz to govern together, clearly said that a coalition between Christian Democrats and Social Democrats could last a maximum of two years, then there would be early elections and "ours will become the leading party" .
An appeal not heeded by the new Chancellor in pectore. Who aims, and has said so clearly, at a coalition with the Social Democrats, despite their "disastrous" result, by the SPD's own admission.
The liberal party FDP, with less than 5%, is out of parliament. Its chairman and former finance minister, Christian Lindner, has announced that he is leaving politics. The BSW reached 4.97%, missing the Bundestag by just 13,000 votes . Considered moribund a few months ago, , thanks to a very social program hostile to the far right, which has seduced especially young people. .
