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German 2025 federal election results

By Thomas A. Smith

BERLIN The Christian Democratic Union and the allied Christian Social Union secured the largest share of votes in the German federal election on Sunday, according to exit polls from German broadcaster ZDF.

This puts the party s lead candidate Friedrich Merz in prime position to take over from Olaf Scholz as chancellor of Europe s largest economy.

The CDU-CSU won 28.5% of votes, with the far-right AfD in second place with 20% and Scholz s Social Democratic Party coming in third with 16.5%, according to ZDF exit polls data.

via www.cnbc.com