Election shock in Germany: SPD falls at a historic low point!

Election shock in Germany: SPD falls at a historic low point!

Vienna, Österreich - The Bundestag election on February 23, 2025 caused great excitement! The Alliance for Social Justice (BSW) under Sahra Wagenknecht has elegantly missed the five percent hurdle with only 4.97 percent of the votes, as vienna.at reported. According to initial post-counts, irregularities were found, including allegedly incorrectly assigned voices, which reinforces the BSW ärger and the pursuit of a new count. Wagenknecht emphasized the need to check these errors before the official end result, which is to be published next Friday, will be determined. In the event of further inconsistencies, legal steps could even be initiated.

The preliminary end result shows the Union under Friedrich Merz as the strongest force with 28.52 percent of the vote, but the CDU-CSU remains behind the expectations and now needs a coalition partner. With 20.8 percent, the AfD surprisingly grew and is increasingly perceived as a people's party, especially in East Germany. This is the worst result for the SPD, which has slipped to third place at 16.41 percent, while the Greens recorded only minor losses with 11.61 percent. The FDP missed the move into parliament with 4.33 percent and its leading figure Christian Lindner has already announced that it has left politics, so Tagesschau.de . The alliance of Wagenknecht is also missing in view of only 13,400 votes.

A total of 59.2 million citizens were called in this election to give their vote, which resulted in an impressive turnout of 83.5 percent, the highest since reunification. The peculiarity of the election was the new right to vote, which led to 630 MPs will move into the Bundestag. Despite the difficulties, the political landscape of Germany is reorganized, and the unclear majority relationships give hope for exciting coalition negotiations.