German election: CDU claims victory as smaller parties miss threshold
With all results counted the Christian Democratic Union has claimed victory as smaller parties, including the left-conservative Sahra Wagenknecht Aliiance, barely missed the threshold to enter parliament.
ADVERTISEMENTGermany’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and its leader Friedrich Merz has come first in Sunday’s election with 28% of the vote.
The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) came second with 20%, doubling its vote share from Germany’s last election in 2021 and giving a far-right party its best result in the country since World War II.
Smaller parties failed to make the 5% threshold needed to enter the Bundestag, including the liberal Free Democratic Party (FDP) and the Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance (BSW).
For hours, preliminary results showed the BSW had managed to pass the threshold — a result which would have deeply complicated Merz’s desire to form a two-party coalition government.
Ultimately the BSW scored a nail-biting 4,97 whilst the far-left Die Linke party capitalised on its last-minute success and won 8% of the vote.
Olaf Scholz’s Social Democrats (SPD) party came third place with 16% of the vote — the worst score for the party since 1887.
This is a developing story and our journalists are working on further updates.
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