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The Germans voted today in the election that would provide Germany with the highest outcome of the far-right alternative (AFD) and identify the future of Europe’s greatest democracy in a time of acute geopolitical and economic challenges.
Polls show that the pro-Russian, anti-immigrant party, co-led by Alice Weidel, can win the support of about one-fifth of German voters, twice as many as the 2021 federal election. During the campaign, the AFD got the Trump administration and X.
The party’s election gains will mark a shift in rights for the eurozone’s largest economy, which has been working hard for the past two years due to high energy prices and competition for cheap Chinese imports.
The first forecast for German seats will be released at 6 p.m. local time when the polling station is closed.
The AFD’s xenophobia campaign resonated after three deadly attacks by immigrants. On Friday, police said they arrested Syrian refugees for suspected knife attacks at the Berlin Holocaust Memorial.
All other German parties ruled out cooperation with the AFD in a coalition – at the Munich security conference last week, U.S. Vice President JD Vance condemned the so-called firewall.
But a far-right group in the Bundestag would likely complicated the efforts of Friedrich Merz, the leader of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), who led the replacement of Olaf Schultz ( Olaf Scholz) served as prime minister.
Meles’ Conservative Party is expected to win the election with about 30% of the vote, while Scholz is expected to lead his centre-left Social Democrat (SPD) with its worst defeat since 1887, accounting for 15%.
If smaller parties, such as the liberal FDP, the left-wing Link and the one-year-old “left-wing conservative” party, crossed the 5% threshold by Firebrand sahran sahra wagenknecht, work harder to form a coalition . Bondstag.
The next German Chancellor will not only inherit a stagnant economy, but will also be disoriented by Donald Trump’s hostile rhetoric towards Europe. The U.S. president shocked his transatlantic allies by threatening to withdraw security assurances from the African continent and holding talks on Russia’s fate on Ukraine.
“We will win the federal election and then the nightmare for the incumbent government will finally end,” Melz told supporters at a rally in Munich on Saturday.
“Yes, we had structural problems, but for me, the glass is always half full and never completely empty.” “We will turn this semi-complete glass into a complete one again Glass, we will show the realization of this economy.”
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