Germany Elections 2017

The Federal elections were held in Germany on Sunday, 24 September 2017, to elect the members of the 19th Bundestag.

Miss Angela Merkel wins the fourth term and again to be set the Germany’s chancellor after her centre right CDU/CSU won a projected 33% of the vote in federal elections in the Bundestag with an estimated 218 seats..

But AfD takes 13% making clear the rise of the far-right party after six decades on hold. What’s next?

“Chancellor Angela Merkel clinched an historic fourth term in Germany’s election on Sunday, but her victory was clouded by the hard-Right AfD party winning its first seats in parliament.

Merkel, who after 12 years in power held a double-digit lead for most of the campaign, scored around 32.9 per cent of the vote with her conservative Christian Union (CDU/CSU) bloc.

Its nearest rivals, the Social Democrats (SPD) and their candidate Martin Schulz, came in a distant second, with a post-war record low 20.8 per cent.” Telegraph