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German voters turned into a collective vote on Sunday and gave Friedrich Mirz, leader of the conservative CDU/CSU bloc, a mandate for the counselor Olaf Schools.

But this mandate is far from enthusiasm: the far -right alternative to Germany (AFD) has doubled from the units of legislators since the previous elections in 2021, and the far left witnessed a late increase by the resumption of younger voters.

This will complicate the Mirz mission, especially if he seeks to reduce the constitutional debt brakes to finance defensive spending, a plan that these two rebels said are opposed.

Here are the main meals from Germany legislative elections:

“People’s Party” in Germany continues to decline

The elections have highlighted the continuous corrosion to support the so-called people of CDU and SPD-which has dominated the political life of Germany since 1949.

Mirz It was aimed at securing at least 30 percent of the vote for CDU and its Bavarian brother, CSU, to form a stable coalition. Instead, German conservatives won the elections at 28.5 percent of the vote, which is the second lowest balance in their history and only four points more than their worst results in 2021. The result was less than 32.9 percent of the Merz’s Merz Party, Angela Merkel’s competition included in a year 2017.

With 16.4 percent of the votes, SPD suffered from its worst defeat since 1887. The main reason was deep resentment with the Shuls Harmers Alliance with the Free Green and Liberal Democrats (FDP). The Sholls government presided over a pillar economy in the wake of Russia’s full invasion of Ukraine, and ends in a budget dispute in November.

FDP of Christian Lindner did not believe in sufficient voices to enter Parliament, while the Greens – led by Economy Minister Robert Habek – also lost support, although it was less than its other coalition partners.

The return of CDU/CSU coalition with SPD

The fact that the FDP and BSW, the “left -wing” party in Sahra Wagenknecht, has lost the vote threshold by 5 percent to enter Bundesgag (the last by 0.03 percentage points) means that the big parties leave with more seats, give Mirz an alliance option of two parties with SPD .

This would return to what was called a “big alliance”, except for that with 328 common seats, the majority of the seat will not be 13 large.

Non -voters have been mobilized for the far -right AFD

The highest turnout since its reunification – 82.5 percent – has benefited greatly from AFD.

The extreme right increased at the expense of all other parties, but its greatest success was in mobilizing non -voters: about 40 percent of the 4.4 million voters who acquired AFD citizens who did not vote in 2021, according to the exit poll by Infrate DIMAP for the ARD broadcaster.

AFD 910,000 CDU/CSU voters have gained, but she lost about 1 million. This indicates that Mirz’s maneuvering of the campaign on the most stringent immigration laws – and breaking German taboos by relying on AFD voices to pass the immigration proposal in Parliament – on a clear basis.

AFD wins big in the East and progress in the poorest parts of the West

AFD, led by Chancellor Alice, has become the largest political force in the eastern German states, where it won the most direct states.

While it failed to win the first direct electoral district in the West, AFD has voted the party’s list – a second vote that defines the seats in Parliament for each party – in the western city of Gilsinkorn, who suffered from manufacturing.

The extreme right -wing party also came in Caeserslautren, in the southwest.

The younger voters turned into the far left

Linke, who dies the extremist left, has made sudden gains-I got 8.8 percent of the vote-by filling the youngest voter. It became the largest party between 18-24 years.

However, AFD came second, which means that nearly half of Germany groups supported a party in both the political spectrum, with a sharp increase since 2021.

Many recent articles said that young voters were going to the radical right. But the largest party [among the youth] “Link dies,” said Anna Siofi Heinz, a political scientist at the University of Trier.

Heinz said that Die Linke has participated in “very successful youth mobilization for young people”, including VIA TIKTOK – which was once AFD. She added that he was assisted, through the quality of the “star” for her candidate for the counselor, Heidi Reichink, whose distinctive style includes a hot margin, red lipstick and a left left arm.

AFD was the number one option for children between the ages of 25 and 44, with one in four they say they voted for the right -wing extremist party.

Explore the results throughout the country

Additional reports from Laura Beetle