Exit Poll in Germany, Afd is the second party. Collapse of the SPD

The CDU/CSU holds but does not break through, AFD flies and becomes the second party at the Bundestag, The SPD falls to the historical minimum, the Greens fall but do not collapse, the Linke doubles the consensus, the FDP and the BSW are on the edge of the barrier. This is what emerges from the exit polls on the German political elections created by the Wahlen institute for the ZDF public broadcaster.

Exit Polls assign 28.5% to the conservatives of the Christian-Democratic Union (CDU/CSU), 20% to Afd nationalists, 16.5% at the SPD, 12% at the Greens, 9% to Radical left of Linke, 5% to the Liberals of the FDP and the BSW, the personal party of the “Rossobruna” Sahra Wagenknecht, and 4% to others parties.

According to Zdf and Ard, the turnout in the policy of the German political elections has been the highest ever recorded in recent decades. It stands between 83 and 84 percent, the highest value after reunification. More than 59 million people were entitled to vote. At national level, the turnout at the last elections of 2021 had stood at 76.4%.

187 Seggi CDU/CSU, 131 AFD, 108 SPD

Exit Polls on German political elections spread by the ZDF assign 187 seats at the Bundestag at the CDU/CSU, 131 A AFD, 108 at the SPD, 79 at the Greens, 59 at Linke and 33 to FDP and BSWif they confirm that they had reached the 5%barrier threshold. Otherwise, the votes of the two parties would be redistributed among other political forces. It should be noted that, by virtue of the mixed electoral system in force in Germany, it is possible to shortly lack the barrier threshold and in any case enter Parliament, as happened at Linke in 2021.

CDU: “Historical defeat for the SPD”

“A historic defeat for the SPD”. This was stated by the Secretary General of the CDU Matthias Miersch to the ZDF in a first comment to the electoral exit polls. “This is a very bitter evening”. Miersch congratulated the leader of the CDU Friedrich Merz and with the union for their government mandate. “The traffic light coalition has been eliminated and, despite our efforts across the country, little has changed,” he said.

Weidel: “We have doubled, hand tense to cdu/csu”

The Cancellara candidate of the AFDAlice Weidel, rejoices for the result In the political elections in Germany and offers his collaboration in Friedrich Merz, CDU/CSU Chancellor candidate, first party. “It was very funny, it was fantastic,” said Weidel, “they wanted to halve us, the opposite happened.” The leader of the German extreme stressed that his hand is tense towards the CDU/CSU, “despite knowing that Friedrich Merz excludes a coalition”. Weidel said he was sure that a possible great coalition between CDU/CSU and SPD is destined to break “in the blink of an eye”.

Scholz: “It’s a bitter defeat”

“It is a bitter result, a defeat”. With these words the leader SPD, Olaf Scholz, comments Exit Polls on political elections in Germany. “We will never accept the Afd. No collaboration with the far right. We hope that others also keep this position,” he added.
Scholz congratulates Merz “winner” of the elections.

Merz: “We won the elections”

“We won the elections.” This was stated by the leader of the CDU/CSU, Friedrich Merz, after the exit polls on today’s vote for policies in Germany.

Merz recognizes that “things will not be easy” to form a government. “We must create it as soon as possible with an adequate parliamentary majority, because the world does not await us. Germany will return to be reliable”.