Shocking turnaround: CDU triumphs, SPD only ends up in third place!

Shocking turnaround: CDU triumphs, SPD only ends up in third place!

The 2025 federal election in Germany is causing a stir and has shaken up the political landscape! Today, February 23, 2025, over 59 million eligible voters cast their votes. The polling stations closed at 6 p.m. and the first projections show a clear picture: the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) is leading with almost 29 percent of the vote and has therefore clearly taken the lead. The CDU celebrates this victory as a great success for its bourgeois-conservative politics under the leadership of Friedrich Merz, which is also confirmed by the Austrian People's Party, which congratulates its sister party. Headline news, because while the CDU triumphs, the Alternative for Germany (AfD) sees a stunning rise, reaching almost 20 percent, taking second place - a historic moment for the right-wing populist party. 5min.at reported that the SPD suffered a bitter defeat and slipped to third place with 16.4 percent. Almost 10 percent less than before means a “historic defeat” for the once dominant party, as General Secretary Matthias Miersch said.

Political realignment in the election outcome

The Greens achieved a decline to 13.2 percent and therefore cannot build on their previous successes. The Left, on the other hand, is developing surprisingly positively, recording an increase of almost 4 percent at 9 percent and being celebrated by party leader Heidi Reichinnek as the “comeback of the year”. The projections also show that a black-red coalition would mathematically have a majority, while a black-green coalition would not be enough. The FDP faces a bitter evening with a predicted result of just 4.9 percent - a sharp decline of 6.5 percent. Hessenschau reported on the dismay within the SPD, describing the result as devastating and questioning the future of the party. The election evening therefore belongs to the winners CDU and AfD, while the other parties have to start the coming legislative period with a difficult legacy.