Friedrich Merz made it And he seals his victory as “historical”. The Germans rewarded his CDU and offered him the helm for the next government consultations. After a Tesissimo election campaign, in Germany the numbers leave too much doubts since the exit poll: he will be the next chancellor. Olaf Scholz is defeated, admits it and prepares to leave the scene, with a contrite and explicit face “bitterness”. While the ultra -tenders, which is affirmed for the first time as a second party in the Federal Republicdoubles the acclaim compared to four years ago. However, it did not explode, as well as he had feared, beyond the 20%threshold, for some time scheduled for surveys. “Welcome to the Konrad Adenauer Haus, on this historic evening, on February 23, 2025. We, CDU and CSU, the Union, won these elections,” he marked Angela Merkel’s rival, who arrived at success after collecting, In the past, many defeats. But waiting for him there is a remarkable rock: it remains uncertain that the numbers are enough for a large koalition, the only team deemed truly stable. Decisive will be the data of Liberali and BSW, still on the edge of the razor in the evening compared to the entrance threshold in Parliament of 5%.
If they both make it to enter the Bundestag, a three -way coalition would be the obligatory way to reach at least the magical number of the 316 seats necessary out of 630. According to the projections of 20 of public TV ARD, CDU would have 28.6% (in 2021 he took the 24.1), while the SPD collapses at 16.3 (compared to the 25.7% who handed over the helm to Scholz). AFD flies to 20.4% (and doubles the consensus that in 2021 were still at 10.4). Greens remain at 12.3% (against 14.7 of that time). Linke rises with a leap at 8.5% (it was 4.9). While the BSW party of Sahra Wagneknehct begins with a good 4.9% but risks not entering the Bundestag, such as the liberals of the FDP data data at 4.7% (after 11.4% of 4 years ago that did yes who conquered a place in Scholz’s traffic light coalition, then collapsed by them). The outcome of the early elections (which marked a record turnout of 84%) therefore confirmed a success for the ultra -decayed ultra -decayed by Alice Weidel. The woman who has chosen to radicalize her position, also taking advantage of the support of the United States of America and an atmosphere of general uncertainty marked by the Endorsment Elon Musk, the push of JD Vance and an unprecedented wave of terror, in A succession of attacks that hit Berlin – on Friday evening the last attack with the knife, of an anti -Semitic matrix, in the heart of the memorial at the Shoah – and also in rest of the country. “A historic result, we have doubled our votes,” the leader exulted. “We are ready to govern, our hands are tense,” he added, aiming straight to the abolition of the health cordon that isolates his party. An atmosphere Instead, the Willy Brandt Haus, where the Chancellor Scholz admitted “the bitter defeat” and promptly addressed his wishes to the winner, to whom he will pass through The witness, remaining a simple parliamentarian. As “great success for Germany and America” - the signals for future negotiations have already started. It does not wait for us. The Bavarian ally of the CSU Markus Soeder reiterated the veto on a coalition with the Greens: «Robert Habeck has lost, they must go to the opposition. If the liberals make it, it would be better to govern with them and the Social Democrats, who have already promised a renewal ». On the FDP front, Christian Lindner said he was ready to leave politics if the party ends up outside Parliament. While his deputy Wolfgang Kubicka tried to put his stakes: a refusal towards ecologists also comes from them, with the no to the hypothesis of a ‘Jamaicà coalition. Village.
Afd rejoices: “Historical result, ready to govern”
“It’s a historical result,” Alice Weidel rejoices When the first results of the German elections project Afd between 19 and 20%, practically double compared to 2021. One in five Germans voted for the ultra -tenders, accused of neo -Nazi sympathies. And his leader is once again lashes out against the ‘Brandmauer’, the sanitary cordon that excludes alternative from the buttons room. Also strong, this time, also of the support of the US Administration, with the vice -president JD Vance who went to say that in democracy “there is no room for healthcare cords” at the Monaco Conference. According to Weidel, a bogeyman of half of Europe, from tonight more than ever, given in hand the Germans clearly want a black-blue coalition, that is to say among the conservatives and Afds. She is very clear: “We are ready to be part of the government, our hands are always tense”. But at the same time he does not believe that the Friedrich Merz CDU will welcome the invitation. That’s why Weidel already looks further: if in the coming years he does not change politics, Afd “will become the strongest German political party”.
Meanwhile, “we will all be all the others, so that they make a reasonable policy for our country”. To look at the fur in the egg, the result confirms what the polls had been reporting for some time, but there was no further shot forward, as she hoped for and almost all the others feared. Perhaps for this reason Weidel also wanted to send a reassuring message to his: «They wanted to halve us, instead we doubled the votes. We had never been so strong to the Federal Parliament ». The AFD is in fact the second group at the Bundestag, the strongest opposition party, therefore as a regulation the first that will take the floor after the government in parliamentary discussions. Get the support of Elon Musk (“AFD is the last hope for Germany”), Alice Weidel is the strongest leader that the party has ever had since its foundation in 2013. With these numbers it all silences and emancipates from List of former leaders who left or have been forced to leave alternatives: Bernd Lucke, Frauke Petry, Joerg Meuthen. The choice to radicalize to satisfy the most extreme wing of the party has undoubtedly paid. Some time ago he wanted to hunt Bjoern Hoecke, perhaps the most extremist of all, then he came to Patti and tonight he was also in the front row, among the first to congratulate and embrace her. After all, Weidel has taken on some sections in recent years. On immigration, for example, when he repeated a slogan typical of the most extreme rights: re-migration. With the party that even printed fake air tickets to report that, after the elections, she would have done seriously. But also on Europe: Afd was born Eurosceptic and when they ask them what he wants to do with the single currency, Weidel replies that the euro is a weak currency and “will still be abandoned, because a coin to defend cannot be a coin”. The other leader, Tino Chrupalla, speaks openly one euro for the Northern countries and one for those of Southern Europe, explicitly letting see Italy and Greece out of the single currency. On the war in Ukraine Weidel rejoices for the positions of the American administration: in his opinion the conflict had not even had to start, it would have been enough to come to terms with Putin. Alice tonight celebrates, rightly. His calculation is that a new coalition without AFD will not be able to create that turning point that the country, according to her, needs. Indeed, it is possible that it is quarrelsome just like the last three -way government experience. This could make the consents rise again for his party. On the other hand, radicalization could be its greatest limit for the future. Without a minimum of pragmatism, Weidel risks full of votes but only having the right of a tribune to the Bundestag.