German Elections: Merkel’s Party Suffers Worst-Ever Results
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Angela Merkel’s party has suffered its worst-ever election results in Germany’s federal elections, according to preliminary results.
Her notionally centre-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party and its allied Bavarian sister party the Christian Social Union (CSU) appear to have taken 24.1 per cent of the vote share, down 8.8 per cent from the last election — their worst result since the dawn of the post-war democratic era in 1949, when they took 31 per cent in what was then West Germany.
The left-wing Social Democratic Party (SPD) seems to have edged ahead of them with 25.7 per cent of the vote share, up 5.2 per cent from their last rather poor outing in federal elections.
While the two parties are currently in a so-called “grand coalition” government under Chancellor Merkel’s leadership, it is unlikely — although not impossible — that such an arrangement will continue, with both claiming a mandate to govern and looking to Germany’s more minor parties to form a coalition.
Armin Laschet, the intended centre-right successor to Mrs Merkel, who announced she would step down as Chancellor after a new government is formed — although this may leave her in power as a so-called caretaker for months while coalition talks are ongoing — will be looking to a ‘Jamaica Coalition’ of the CDU-CSU, Greens, and the Free Democrats (FDP), so-called because the parties’ traditional colours of red, green, and black match those of the Jamaican flag.
SPD leader Olaf Scholz, meanwhile, will be looking to a ‘T... (Read more)
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