Friedrich Merz Wins German Election With Far-Right In Second
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Germany’s conservative opposition leader Friedrich Merz won Sunday’s federal election, comfortably finishing ahead of the far-right AfD party and Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Social Democrats.
Merz’s CDU/CSU bloc won 28.8% of the votes, followed by 20.2% for the Alternative for Germany, according to estimates from public broadcaster ARD. The Social Democrats finished third with 16.2%, the party’s worst result since World War II.