Mertz Conservatives celebrate, the very right one enjoys a record result

Frederich Merz’s conservatives won the German elections, much ahead of the rival parties, but except for the 30% vote they expected.

“Let’s celebrate tonight and in the morning we will start working,” he told supporters of the merry. He said he “is aware of the responsibility that is now ahead.”

The other winner was the final alternative to Germany (AFD), which celebrates a record result from second 20.8%.

AFD candidate for Chancellor Alice Wedel won her supporters, but even her party hoped for a greater result and the mood in HQ AFD was conquered.

As the results came in the early hours of Monday, it became clear that AFD was far more than other countries in the east, with 34% forecast, according to a study on the public television operator ZDF.

“The Germans voted for change,” said Alice Wedel. She said that Friedrich Mertz’s experience to build a coalition will eventually end with a failure: “We will have new elections – I don’t think we’ll have to wait four more years.”

But just as the election map became a light blue east, much of the rest of Germany became black – the color of CDU.

Following the collapse of Olaf Scholz’s tripartian coalition at the end of last year, Mertz demanded the electorate for a strong mandate to form a clear coalition with another party.

This would allow him to solve as much of Germany’s problems after four years, he said, from a stagnant economy to closing his borders to irregular migrants.

German voters had other ideas. They came out in large numbers, with 83% of turnout, which has not been seen since the Union in 1990, but the Christian Democrats of Mertz sought more than 28.6% of the votes they and their Bavarian sister received.

Merz turned off by working with AFD. There is a taboo or a “firewall”, preventing major parties in Germany from working with the far right.

But his most likely partner, the Social Democrats, have suffered their highest score of 16.4%.

Their leader, leaving Chancellor Olaf Skolz, said the election results were a bitter defeat for the party and he would not participate in the coalition negotiations.

Due to the relatively uncomfortable presentation of the CDU, at first there was some doubt that two parties would be sufficient for a coalition.

Germany had just passed through four years to a tripartian coalition and the only other realistic partner was the Greens, whose leader Robert Habek Merz dared as a “representative of heat pumps” on the eve of the vote.

The 69 -year -old Merz has never occupied ministry work, but has promised if the next German Chancellor will become leading in Europe and forests in support of Ukraine.

Most Germans were shocked by the open support that billionaire Elon Musk and US Vice President JD Vance had an alternative to Germany in the election. Vance was accused of intervention in the vote during a visit to Munich, while Elon Musk made repeated remarks on his X platform.

This was done by Alice Wedel and her party no harm, as AFD enjoyed a 10-point increase in support four years ago. But she also took advantage of a successful Tiktok campaign, which attracted a large number of young voters.

Nevertheless, President Donald Trump welcomed Merz’s victory. He said it was proof that the Germans were, like Americans tired of “without common sense, especially in terms of energy and immigration.”

If it was an overture, Merz didn’t accept it as such. He told a television discussion about a round table on Sunday night that it became clear last week that the Trump administration was “largely indifferent to the fate of Europe”.

Trump strangely defined Voladimir Zelenski of Ukraine as a “dictator” and he appeared to be accused of Kiev at the beginning of the war, which Russia unleashed to its neighbor just three years ago.

Mertz said that his “absolute priority” would be “strengthening Europe as quickly as possible so that we can achieve real independence from the US step by step.”

Mertz’s victory was quickly welcomed in much of Europe. France Emmanuel Macron talks about merging in time of uncertainty to face the main challenges of the world and our continent, “while the United Kingdom Prime Minister Sir Kiir Starmer tried to” improve our joint security and to provide growth for both sides “.

Friedrich Merz’s Christian Democrats continue to rely on older voters for their success, while voters aged 18-24 seem to be much more interested in both AFD and another party, the left that appeared in the ballot in the last weeks.

Not long ago, the left was sent by parliament with the poll numbers well below the 5%threshold.

But a series of Tiktok videos showing co-leader Heidi Raychinek, exporting fiery speeches in parliament, became a viral and they finished nearly 9%, and a quarter of the younger vote, according to an ARD study.