(CNN) – Germany’s left-wing Social Democratic Party (SPD) celebrates a narrow front Exit polls Released after the polls close Federal election in GermanyBut the end result of the close match is uncertain.
In a poll conducted by CNN affiliate Forschungsgroup Wahlan for N-TV, the SPD received 25.7% of the vote. Outgoing President Angela Merkel With 24.6%, followed by Greens with 14.4% and FDP with 11.7%. % And AfD 10.7%.
The narrow margins indicate that the German elections are too tight to give a winner at this point and the next government is unpredictable, and the chancellor is impossible. A large number of votes are to be counted by mail.
No matter which party comes to the fore, lengthy coalition talks are expected before a government can be formed.
But for the SPD, the parallel with the CDU is considered a significant advantage. The Left Party won 20.5% of the vote in the last 2017 general election.
“Voters have decided that the Social Democratic Party has won, which is a big victory,” SPD leader Olaf Scholes commented from his party headquarters.
Scholes said voters want him to be the next president. “Many citizens have sided with the SPD because they want regime change and they want the next president of this country to be called Olaf Scholes.”
The 63-year-old politician has served as German deputy and finance minister in Merkel’s grand coalition government since 2018. Germany For infection.
“We will show pragmatism, optimism, solidarity, because that is what is important, and I firmly believe that citizens will be happy with their decision after the election,” Scholes added.
He was interrupted by loud applause and cheers from happy party supporters as he spoke.
“Now we’ll wait for the final result, but we’ll get down to work. Thank you!” Scholes said.
Robin Fuckman, 20, a staunch Scholars supporter, told CNN he was pleased with the results so far.
“It’s really a wonderful decision, people believe in Olaf Scholes, people believe that Armin Lashed can not really lead this country,” he said. “So we have an mandate to lead a new government, I hope we will. First, we are going to celebrate because this is a very exciting decision.”
Olaf Scholes welcomes SPD headquarters after ratings were televised in Berlin.
Armin Laschett puts on a face when commenting on the results of Sunday’s Bundestock election.
CDU leader: Party ‘can’t be happy’
On the contrary, the mood at the CDU headquarters worsened when the initial poll results came out. They suggest that the CDU, along with its sister party, the Christian Community Union in Bavaria, could see the worst outcome in the coalition’s history, with its vote share likely to be less than 8% from 2017 onwards.
CDU leader Armin Laschett told supporters that the party was “not satisfied with this decision”, although the final outcome was unclear.
“We can predict that there will be a government with three parties,” he said, adding that he would make every effort to form a coalition.
The CDU has a “mandate against a left-wing government,” Lachet added.
After the resignation of Merkel, who has been considered a stable pair of hands for the past 16 years, the party campaigned with the message of stability. But now he called himself a bitter night loss.
“It’s bitter for us to see how we lost compared to the last election,” CDU general secretary Paul Jimenez told CNN at party headquarters.
“But after the numbers it becomes clear that there is still no clear vision of who is ahead and how right they are,” he said.
The question is, who can form a stable government and, for the future, form an alliance for this country? We have many problems to solve – climate protection, innovation – but we need to guarantee stability and social security, I believe the alliance of CDU / CSU, Greens and FDP can work well, we will talk about it in the next few days. “
Deborah Prabha, a 27-year-old law student and young Christian Union Democrat, told CNN at CDU headquarters that the results were “disappointing” but nothing was lost.
“We have to consider that we have been dating Angela Merkel for 16 years and I am a great fan of them. I am already sad that she is leaving the office,” he commented. “We called her Mum (mom). She knew how to talk to people. She communicated with people. She did a lot for Germany. It made her so much better compared to other politicians. I miss her sense of humor.”
German Chancellor Angela Merkel congratulated leading CDU members on Sunday.
Meanwhile, people at the Green Party headquarters in Berlin cheered as they read the first exit polls.
While thanking party supporters, Green leader Annalena Barbach said, “We carried out a campaign that we have not experienced in this country, twenty-four hours a day, until last night.”
The Environmental concerns Economic troubles have emerged as the main theme of the campaign, triggered by the deadly floods that devastated parts of Germany this summer.
Barbach attributed the success of his party to new and young voters. “This drive of markets, a lot [gente] A member of our party in recent years has led to these excellent all-time results, ”he said.
But, Firebaugh added, the party “wanted more” and did not perform somewhat better due to the mistakes she made during the season.
AfD’s leading presidential candidate, Alice Weidel, put on a bold face after the planned election results showed support for the far-right party has fallen by 2.6% since 2017.
“We are in two figures and we were able to confirm ourselves,” he told Reuters. “The claim that we will leave Parliament after the legislative term has completely failed. We are very happy.”
Will there be a bigger alliance?
Until it is replaced by a new government, the outgoing government will remain in office as interim government. Merkel, 67, is retiring and will take over as the new president.
Although the final decision changed the distribution of votes, the basic truth is that “after 16 years in power, nearly 76% of Germans have not voted for Merkel’s party,” CNN commentator Dominic Thomas said.
There will be no real opportunity for the CDU or the SPD to form an alliance, he added.
“If the SPD is in the lead, the only way forward is to talk to all three parties, perhaps including the Greens and the FDP. And bringing them all together is a very difficult task,” he commented.
Exit polls suggest Center and Center moving to the left, he said, reflecting the concerns of a younger electorate.
“It is clear that this drive is moving more towards issues related to social welfare and green politics,” Thomas said.
Negotiations to form a coalition government could take weeks or even months. It took more than five months to form a government with Merkel after the September 2017 election.
CNN’s Frederik Pleitgen, Salma Abdelaziz, Nadine Schmidt and Stephanie Halasz wrote from Berlin and Laura Smith-Spark from London. CNN’s Nina Avramova, Inke Kapeller and Aditi Sankal contributed to the report.
