Conservatives of German opposition, the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), won the national elections on Sunday (23), placing the leader of the Friedrich Merz party on the way to be the country’s next chancellor.
While the alternative to ultra -right Germany (AFD) was in second place, the best result of all time, showed ballot research.
“Tonight we will celebrate, and from tomorrow we will start working,” Merz, 69, told supporters.
The party leader claims to be preparing for what will probably be long negotiations for a coalition. While its CDU/CSU emerged as the largest block, obtaining the second worst postwar result.
It is still unclear whether Merz will need one or two partners to form a majority. All main parties discarded working with AFD.
Race for Parliament
Following a campaign marked by a series of violent attacks and interventions from the US President of the President Donald Trump, the conservative Block CDU/CSU obtained 28.7% of the votes, followed by AFD with 19.8%, according to a mouth survey of a ballot box published by the German public broadcaster ZDF.
The Chancellor Olaf Scholz Social Democratic Party (SPD) had its worst result since World War II, with 16.4% of the votes, according to the broadcaster’s projection, while the Greens got 12.3% and the party. Far-left, Die Linke, with 8.9% of the votes.
Merz, who is 69, has no previous experience in the executive, but promised to exercise greater leadership than Chancellor Olaf Scholz and establish greater contact with the main allies, expanding Germany’s protagonism in the heart of Europe.
An impetuous economic liberal that has moved conservative opponents to the right, he is considered the antithesis of former conservative chancellor Angela Merkel, who led Germany for 16 years.
However, without a majority in an increasingly fragmented political scenario, their conservative co -religionists will have to probe partners to form a coalition.
These negotiations will certainly be complicated after a campaign that exposed strong divisions on the theme immigration and how to deal with AFD in a country where far-right policy carries a particularly strong stigma due to the Nazi past.
This could leave Scholz in the role of interim prime minister for months, delaying the urgently necessary policies to relive Europe’s largest economy after two consecutive years of contraction and while companies in the country face difficulties against global rivals.
The German chancellor recognized the defeat on Sunday (23) and congratulated his conservative opponent.
“This is a bitter electoral result for the Social Democratic Party, it is also an electoral defeat,” said the chancellor in a first reaction. “Congratulations on the result of the election,” he continued.
German policy and Europe
The political situation in Germany would also create a vacuum of leadership in the heart of Europe, even with the country dealing with a series of challenges, such as the threat of US President Donald Trump, a trade war and the attempt to accelerate an agreement of ceasefire to Ukraine without the involvement of the European powers.
Germany, which has an export -oriented economy and has long depends on the United States for its safety, is particularly vulnerable.
Germans are more pessimistic about their life standards now than at any time since the 2008 financial crisis.
Government attitudes towards the theme immigration have also hardened, a profound change in the feeling of the German public since the “welcome” refugee culture during the European migratory crisis in 2015, something AFD took electoral benefit.
This content was originally published in German conservatives should lead coalition while ultra -right advances on CNN Brazil.
Source: CNN Brasil
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