Elections in Germany: Merkel’s CDU Secretary General Speaks of ‘Bitter Losses’

The general secretary of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) of Germany, the chancellor’s party Angela Merkel, expressed his disappointment this Sunday during the legislative elections, as the exit polls give a second place to the conservatives, behind the Social Democrats.

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“The losses are bitter compared to the last elections,” in 2017, when the CDU-CSU alliance won more than 30% of the vote, Paul Ziemiak told reporters. On this occasion, the polls credit them between 24 and 25% of the votes.

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The German Social Democrats narrowly led the legislative elections this Sunday, which marked the end of the era Merkel, but the country is preparing for a long period of uncertainty about the chancellor’s succession.

Led by the outgoing Minister of Finance and Vice Chancellor Olaf Scholz, the Social Democrats of the SPD would collect between 25.7% and 26% of the vote, while Angela Merkel’s conservative Christian-Democratic Union (CDU) alliance and her Bavarian ally, the CSU, led by Armin Laschet, would obtain around 24, 5% of the votes, according to the estimates published by the television networks.

Scholz stated that it was a “great success” and stated that “many citizens […] they want a change of government ”and for him to be“ the next chancellor ”.

But the Conservatives, despite their “disappointing” result, also plan to form the next government, he warned nonetheless. Armin Laschet.

“We will do everything we can to build a government led by the Union” CDU-CSU, assured the Democratic-Syrian candidate.

The elections yielded widely distributed results, so that both majority formations will need the support of two other parties to achieve a coalition with sufficient weight to govern. This had not happened since the 1950s.

Combination of 16 archive images show German Chancellor Angela Merkel from 1991 to 2016. (STF / dpa / AFP).

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