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German elections: The German ambassador’s first reaction after the initial results

The exit poll and the first official results of the German elections attended from the garden of the German embassy in Athens, in the presence of guests from the political world, the German ambassador to Greece Ernst Reichel.

During electoral “It was an exciting election night,” the German ambassador said. We have never seen such an election night in Germany in which the result is so close. It is too early to say what kind of government will be formed. It is very difficult to predict which party will be first. “I expect that there will be a period during which the parties will investigate which co-operation government will be formed.”

The election night was attended by the Minister of Health Thanos Plevris, the Deputy Ministers of Development Nikos Papathanasis, the Ministers of Finance Theodoros Skylakakis, the Deputy Ministers of Foreign Affairs Costas Frangogiannis, Minister of Immigration and Asylum Sofia Voulloumos and Dosimos Koulimos and Dos.

Also present were former Prime Minister George Papandreou, head of diplomatic missions, representatives of German political institutions and the Greek-German Chamber of Commerce, academics, journalists and scholarship holders of the German parliament’s exchange program.

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