BERLIN – Police -line up is open throughout Germany, as the third largest economy in the world chooses a new leader to guide him during an era Discussions of fever immigration and Stressing relations with Washington.
An extraordinary dramatic vote is for the country’s most populated country, and it is the place that usually proud to have routine ballot cards that are not full. This time has been raised with a series of Prominent attacks By people with immigrant backgrounds, create an atmosphere of tension The extreme right -wing alternative to Germany The party seeks to benefit.
The bowl has also been moved by the AFD healing Trump administration support, terrible for many party opponents in a country still Very careful of her Nazi past.
Under the leadership of Alice Widel, AFD is 21 %, which, if reflected in the final result, will lead to the best result in its short history for 12 years, and perhaps put it in second place at the national level. Despite its expected success, the other parties pledged not to enter the post -vote coalition with AFD, to honor the informal “Wall” that aims to prevent the return of fascism.
Perforish polls are led by the Christian Democratic Union, the party led by Angela Merkel. CDU is about 30 %, with the current Socialist Democratic Party, or the Democratic Democratic Party, led by Olaf Scholz, ranks third in about 15 %. The vegetables are the next 12 %.
The smaller parties such as socialism dies Linke, and free democrats supporting the works and popular popularity Sahra Wagenknecht an alliance that hopes to achieve the 5 % threshold needed to enter Bundestag.
In addition to immigration, the other motivation factor behind these elections is the economy. Although it was seen as the industrial power in Europe, the economy in Germany was stagnant and now swinging on the recession. To revive it, CDU and AFD want to reduce taxes and public spending, while SPD and Greens prefer to spread investment subsidies and tax height of high papers.
Another main defection is Ukraine, as most parties support the continuous support of the country fighting against Russia, but AFD in favor of withdrawing this support and improving relations with Russia. It is just one of many advanced right -wing parties that acquire support in Europe and which wants a closer relationship with the Kremlin.
Germany has a traditional semi -traditional voting system, making it difficult for any one party to win directly. Instead, they must work together to form coalition governments, usually led by the largest party. These can take weeks and even months.
So although opinion polls are closed at 6 pm local time (noon ET), the exit survey should give an accurate idea of the result, what this means in practice will take much longer.
