Five takeaways from Germany’s historic election

Five key takeaways from the German election

Friedrich Merz's conservatives have won, but the vote has thrown up some fascinating stories.

Five takeaways from Germany’s historic election

Non-voters and young people turned out for the AfD and far left, depriving the CDU of an enthusiastic mandate

The Five Takeaways From the German Snap Election - The Long Brief

The snap elections in Germany on Sunday saw record-breaking turnouts and a move to the right. The conservative parties were able to turn the high degree of public discontent into votes. On the other hand, the voters clearly punished the parties of the “traffic light coalition” led by Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz. The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) came in second, followed by the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and its Bavarian sister…

Takeaways from the 2025 German election

Germany has voted, and the results call for some serious soul searching among the country’s mainstream political parties. For the first time in the country’s post-World War II history, a far-right party has become the second largest party in a general election. The Alternative for Germany party (AfD), which Germany’s Office for the Protection of the Constitution suspects in part to be right-wing extremist and thus a potential threat to the count…

NYTimes on the German Election – The Occidental Observer

I suppose we should have a look at what our newspaper of record says. Notice the typical German voters in multicultural Germany in the photo below. 5 Takeaways From Germany’s Election Listen to this article · 6:22 min Learn more After the Christian Democrats fell out of power in 2021, Mr. Merz assumed leadership of the party […]

4 key takeaways from the German election

More 18-24s voted for the left-wing Die Linke than any other party, but the far-right AfD still picked up 20 per cent of their vote