German elections: CDU claims official victory as smaller parties miss threshold!
Germany's Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and its leader Friedrich Merz came first in Sunday's elections with 28% of the vote.
The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) came in second with 20%, doubling its share of the vote from the last German election in 2021 and giving a far-right party its best result in the country since World War II.
Smaller parties failed to reach the 5% threshold needed to enter the Bundestag, including the Liberal Free Democratic Party (FDP) and the Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance (BSW).
For hours, preliminary results showed that the BSW had managed to cross the threshold, a result that would have deeply complicated Merz's desire to form a two-party coalition government.
In the end, BSW scored 4.97 points, while the left-wing party Die Linke capitalized on last-minute success and won 8% of the vote.
Olaf Scholz's Social Democratic Party (SPD) came in third with 16% of the vote, the worst result for the party since 1887.
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