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Conservative CDU Wins German Election, AfD in 2nd: Projected Results

CDU is heading into what are likely to be lengthy coalition talks without a strong negotiating hand.

Friedrich Merz, leader of Germany's conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and his party's main candidate for Chancellor, addresses supporters after the first exit polls in the German general elections were announced on TV during the electoral evening in Berlin on Feb. 23, 2025. Ina Fassbender/AFP via Getty Images

By Owen Evans
2/23/2025 Updated: 2/23/2025


Germany’s center-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) has emerged as the winner in the federal election, and Alternative for Germany (AfD) came in second with its best ever result, projected results show.

On Sunday, Friedrich Merz’s CDU/CSU bloc capitalized on widespread discontent over inflation, rising energy costs, and immigration policies, and earned 28.7 percent of the vote, followed by the AfD with 19.8 percent, the projection published by public broadcaster ZDF showed.

“Tonight we will celebrate, and from tomorrow we start working ... The world out there is not waiting for us,” Merz, 69, told supporters.

Merz is heading into what are likely to be lengthy coalition talks without a strong negotiating hand. While his CDU/CSU emerged as the largest bloc, it scored its second worst post-war result.

It remains unclear whether Merz will need one or two partners to form a majority. A three-way coalition would likely be much more unwieldy, hampering Germany’s ability to show clear leadership.

In the past few years, the coalition involving Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s center-left Social Democrats (SPD), the pro-business Free Democrats (FDP), and the Green Party had lost ground.

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