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German election live: Merz says priority is to make Europe independent from US on defence as coalition talks to begin



Donald Trump has made it clear he is ‘fairly indifferent to Europe’s fate’, says CDU leader who plans to form a coalition by EasterConservatives win German election but far-right AfD doubles supportThe record result of the far-right AfD was for many the most important result of the night. The party came in second place on 20.8%, which, if Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s SPD joins the CDU in a “grand coalition”, will make it the largest opposition party in parliament.It’s a sobering result for a country that has prided itself on its memory culture, a reference to the Holocaust and other horrors of the second world war, and its determination never to let such things happen again.Chancellor Merz’s task will be to restore trust in the political centre and more: in the system and in the superiority of liberal democracy over authoritarian approaches. No chancellor has faced such a huge challenge since reunification. Continue reading…



Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2025/feb/24/german-election-live-results-updates-2025-cdu-afd-widel

Author : Helen Livingstone

Publish date : 2025-02-24 05:50:00

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