{"id":8274,"date":"2025-02-23T18:36:30","date_gmt":"2025-02-23T18:36:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/exit-polls-in-germanys-2025-election-give-merzs-conservatives-lead-and-put-far-right-on-strongest-postwar-showing\/"},"modified":"2025-02-23T18:36:30","modified_gmt":"2025-02-23T18:36:30","slug":"exit-polls-in-germanys-2025-election-give-merzs-conservatives-lead-and-put-far-right-on-strongest-postwar-showing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/exit-polls-in-germanys-2025-election-give-merzs-conservatives-lead-and-put-far-right-on-strongest-postwar-showing\/","title":{"rendered":"Exit polls in Germany&#8217;s 2025 election give Merz&#8217;s conservatives lead and put far right on strongest postwar showing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p><span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/germany-election-2025-polling-suggests-shift-but-no-afd-far-right-leader\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">German voters<\/a><\/span> have chosen a new direction in a crucial federal election that will reshape the country&#8217;s political landscape.<\/p>\n<p>Exit polls show opposition leader Friedrich Merz&#8217;s center-right Christian Democratic Union party leading the votes with the far-right <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/germany-election-results-2024-thuringia-afd-fear-as-far-right-rise-in-east\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Alternative for Germany<\/a><\/span> party heading towards the strongest showing of the far-right since World War II.<\/p>\n<p>Merz was quick to claim victory, saying he is aware of the dimension of the task he faces and said that &#8220;it will not be easy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-medium\"><span class=\"img embed__content\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" alt=\"Germany Election \" height=\"414\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/02\/23\/c8a4a907-9476-4d39-9d29-6a6e89beb81b\/thumbnail\/620x414\/69cafd3b53d73a71b3321eb14f96f0d0\/ap25054638940890.jpg?v=db3d87ba7bf4d4ff13b65eabcf0d9bea 1x, https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/02\/23\/c8a4a907-9476-4d39-9d29-6a6e89beb81b\/thumbnail\/1240x828\/39f32b2a4d18fd38592a3ed001d88bb0\/ap25054638940890.jpg?v=db3d87ba7bf4d4ff13b65eabcf0d9bea 2x\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\"><span class=\"embed__caption\">Friedrich Merz, the candidate of the mainstream conservative Christian Democratic Union party, addresses supporters at the party headquarters in Berlin, Germany, Sunday, Feb. 23, 2025, after the German national election.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                Markus Schreiber \/ AP<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Chancellor Olaf Scholz, whose three-party coalition collapsed in November, conceded defeat.<\/p>\n<p>The exit polls for ARD and ZDF public television show Scholz&#8217;s center-left Social Democrats on track for their worst postwar result in a national parliamentary election and expected to be in third place.<\/p>\n<p>The polls, issued right after the last polling stations closed, put support for Merz&#8217;s Union bloc at 28.5-29% and Alternative for Germany, or AfD, at 19.5-20% \u2014 roughly double its result from 2021.<\/p>\n<p>They put support for Scholz&#8217;s Social Democrats at 16-16.5%, far lower than in the last election. The environmentalist Greens were at 13.5%.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-medium\"><span class=\"img embed__content\"><img alt=\"Election Night Reaction At The SPD Headquarters \" height=\"414\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/02\/23\/04ba3b89-9d0b-4f75-95ce-df584dbe8d7b\/thumbnail\/620x414\/4110eda918b352254d4b9e36b619e833\/gettyimages-2200905756.jpg?v=db3d87ba7bf4d4ff13b65eabcf0d9bea 1x, https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/02\/23\/04ba3b89-9d0b-4f75-95ce-df584dbe8d7b\/thumbnail\/1240x828\/9e921bc6121745acd6be348e9b69720e\/gettyimages-2200905756.jpg?v=db3d87ba7bf4d4ff13b65eabcf0d9bea 2x\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\"><span class=\"embed__caption\">Attendees react to exit poll results during a Social Democrats (SPD) election night event in Berlin, Germany, on Sunday, Feb. 23, 2025.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                Alex Kraus\/Bloomberg via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Out of three smaller parties, one \u2014 the hard-left Left Party \u2014 appeared certain to win seats in parliament with 8.5-9% of the vote. Two other parties, the pro-business Free Democrats and the Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance, were around the threshold of the 5% support needed to win seats.<\/p>\n<p>Whether Merz, who is the frontrunner to become the next German chancellor, will need one or two partners to form a coalition government will depend on how many parties get into parliament.<\/p>\n<p>Merz said he aims to put together a governing coalition as quickly as possible.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s unlikely that any single party will garner anywhere near the outright majority of seats in the parliament, or Bundestag, in this election that would be required under Germany&#8217;s electoral system to form a new government on its own.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, parties must negotiate alliances to form a government, with the party that takes the most seats generally putting its leader as chancellor. Coalition governments often require compromises between parties with starkly different policy priorities, making governance a process of negotiation.<\/p>\n<p>Despite their swelling popularity, all the mainstream German parties, including Merz&#8217;s CDU, have categorically ruled out forming a coalition with the AfD \u2014 which President Trump&#8217;s advisor\u00a0<span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/elon-musk-germany-election-afd\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Elon Musk has backed<\/a><\/span>\u00a0in the elections \u2014 citing the party&#8217;s\u00a0<span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/germany-election-results-2024-thuringia-afd-fear-as-far-right-rise-in-east\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">links to far-right extremism<\/a><\/span>. 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