A few hours before the polls open for the national teams elections in Germany, it is impossible to say with certainty which political formation will precede when the polls close on Sunday – the Social Democrats or the two Christian parties CDU and CSU.
In this week’s polls, according to Deutsche Welle, the percentages of the SPD are between 24% and 26% and those of the Christian Parties between 21% and 25%. In most surveys, however, the percentage difference between the two political forces is within the “statistical error”, which is, according to the polling institute, 2.5% -3%.
In an effort to win over mostly undecided voters, the parties are still holding election rallies today. On the side of the candidate of the two Christian parties, Armin Lasset, the chancellor, Angela Merkel, participated in three pre-election events this week. The latter started today at noon in Armin Lassett’s birthplace, Aachen. The central motif of these rallies is that in the event that the SPD emerges as the first party, Germany will go to the left.
At a rally in Cologne, Social Democrat Chancellor Olaf Soltz argued for the need for political change, while the central slogan of the Greens’ candidate, Analena Berbock, in Düsseldorf yesterday was an “ecological start”. Liberal leader Christian Lindner has told the German Second Program (ZDF) once again that he prefers a governing coalition with the Christian Party and the Greens.
At the same time, however, he did not explicitly rule out cooperation with the Social Democrats and the Greens. For their part, the SPD and the Greens have not ruled out any government cooperation – not even with the Left Party. At an election rally in Berlin, the leader of his campaign, Didmar Bartz, stressed that a political change in Germany could only be achieved through the participation of the Left in a governing coalition with the Social Democrats and the Greens.
The possible governing coalitions
Based on the results of the polls, the following possible governing coalitions emerge:
SPD-CDU / CSU
SPD-FDP-Greens
SPD-Greens-Left, and
CDU / CSU-FDP-Greens.
Because no other party wants to work with him, the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) is out of government.
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