Recently Germany has voted and the German election results are in. The centre-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and its Bavarian sister party the Christian Social Union (CSU), led by Friedrich Merz, have earned the top position in the 2025 German federal elections. In this election, they secured 28.6% of the vote, which helped Merz secure the pole position to become the country’s next Chancellor. In this election, The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) finished in second position with a history of 20.4% of the vote.
A New Political Landscape
As everyone knows, The ruling Social Democratic Party (SPD), under Chancellor Olaf Scholz, suffered a major defeat, securing just 16.3% of the vote, that’s a very hard situation for the party that led the government for the past for yours. Not only that Scholz’s coalition partners, the Greens and Free Democratic Party (FDP), also struggled in this election, with the Greens pulling in 11.6% and FDP with less than 5% votes in the exit polls German election.
There is a high voter turnout of 84% which shows how engaged Germans were in this crucial election. In a time of major issues like economic concerns immigration and foreign policy particularly regarding Ukraine, all these were on the voters’ minds.
No Alliance With AfD, Says Merz
Even after AfD’s performance, AfD remains a party that no mainstream political group wants to work with, Merz has repeatedly ruled out forming any partnership with them. On top of that, dimension the idea of a “grand coalition” with the weakened SPD. Now it’s up to SPD Whether they will agree to that remains to be seen as their leadership considering its options. If that doesn’t happen then it will take a few weeks or a month to build a proper alliance and negotiation with parties to form a stable government.
On the other hand, AfD has the support of young and working-class voters as this party is standing for economic frustrations and dissatisfied immigration policies, signalling a major shift in Germany’s political landscape.
Now that the votes have been counted it’s time for the real work to begin. It will indeed take some time to build a stable government but in this situation, there is not much time to spare. If Merz can pull together a governing coalition, Germany could see a shift toward a more conservative agenda. But, if they drag the alliance then it will affect Germany’s economy. Either way, the German election of 2025 has shaken up German politics.
