CDU leader Friedrich Merz will be Germany’s next chancellor. The party expected to poll better.
It has been a disastrous result for the SPD and the far-right AfD have received 20.5 per cent of the vote. The Free Democrats are at 4.7% at 9.30pm. They need five per cent to sit in the Bundestag.
The Greens scored over 13 per cent. It was a good night for Die Linke and a disappointing election for the BSW.
AfD co-leader Alice Weidel is criticising Merz for not considering them to help form a government. The two parties have enough votes to form a coalition but neither CDU nor SPD is willing to entertain a coalition with the AfD.
But why would or should the AfD wish to form a coalition with either the CDU or SPD? They see them as their arch enemies, the people who have destroyed Germany. The AfD say the CDU and SPD are ignoring the will of the people.
On Sunday evening Weidel has promised to hunt (jagen) out of power. In the same interview she assured the German people they will be in power next time.
Democracy has survived in Germany, at least for now.
Much of the politics, strategy and manoeuvring of the AfD is, in so many ways, similar to an Irish political party.
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