German voters went to the polls on Sunday (23 February) to elect the nation’s subsequent Bundestag after Chancellor Olaf Scholz misplaced a confidence vote in December 2024, triggering early elections.
The Christian Democratic Union (CDU) occasion and its affiliate, the Christian Social Union in Bavaria (CSU), received 28.6% of the votes, adopted by the far-right AfD occasion at 20.8%, and Scholz’s Social Democratic Get together of Germany (SDP) at solely 16.4% of the votes.
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