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Centre-right CDU and CSU parties win election, say exit polls
Germany’s centre-right CDU and CSU parties have won the federal elections with about 28.5 to 29 per cent of the vote according to exit polls, paving the way for CDU leader Friedrich Merz to become chancellor at a time of economic and political upheaval in Europe’s largest democracy.
The far-right Alternative for Germany co-led by Alice Weidel recorded its best result with 19.5 — 20 per cent of the vote on Sunday, according to the preliminary projections by state broadcasters ARD and ZDF. That is double what the anti-immigration party achieved in 2021.
Meanwhile Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Social Democratic Party won just 16 to 16.5 per cent of the votes.
And this will be the problem and drive even more people to the AfD. If nothing ever changes, people want to look for something else. For an alternative. And on the surface some points of AfD sound appealing, and if you aren’t a foreigner, you can “turn a blind eye” on the nazi stuff. With a Groko and standstill for 4 more years, I’m afraid that next time we won’t be so lucky and AfD will actually be the strongest party.
It is very ironic because for the first time after 16 years things did change but somehow the government was still blamed and bashed. Let alone that the biggest problem was not SPD and Greens but that the minister of finance was only focused on politics for the minister of finance. I’m happy this fuckwit finally resigned, but we could have had a great minority government that would have actually enabled change if he had just decided to do this earlier. Instead, thank you Christian, you’ve driven the whole country down a path where we are supposed to be happy that a conservative party who fucked the country for 16 years is the strongest power yet again and that “they promised” to not form a coalition with AfD. DeMoCRaCy wOn.
AFD said they’ll win it all next time, and if people continue consuming Russian/Elon shitposting and rotting their brain, they probably will
Yeah, leftist politics will drive more people to the AfD, conservative politics will drive more people to the AfD, ignoring the AfD will drive more people to the AfD, giving them too much air time will drive more people to the AfD, yadayadayada…
This was the election with the highest voter turnout in 40 years and the AfD got 20%.
The same 20% who have consistently given far-right and anti-semitic answers in opinion polls and political studies all throughout the recent history of the Bundesrepublik.
There were always 20% Nazis here, they just didn’t vote in past elections, or they voted CDU/CSU.
Our political system can deal with those 20%, whether they have their own party or not. That’s exactly what the German constitution was designed to do right from the start.
20% Nazis? Are you out of your mind? Every fifth person?
If you ask questions like, “Is the life of an immigrant worth as much as that of a German?” or “Do the Jews have too much power?”, then yes, 20% will consistently hold nazi beliefs.
Where did you get that from? You can’t just quote without providing a source.
In their defense, the AfD did indeed get over 20% of the votes, and won almost every single district in former East Germany.
I think France is more likely to turn Fascist.