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Exit polls: German conservatives win election, far-right has best showing since WWII
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Friedrich Merz, center CDU's top candidate for chancellor, and party board members clap hands on the stage at the main election campaign of the Christian Democratic Union, February 21, 2025, in Oberhausen, Germany, ahead of Sunday's German federal Bundestag elections. (AP/Martin Meissner)
Exit polls show opposition leader Friedrich Merz’s conservatives leading in Germany’s national election. They indicate that Alternative for Germany is heading for the strongest showing for a far-right party since World War II.
The exit polls for ARD and ZDF public television show Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s center-left Social Democrats on track for their worst postwar result in a national parliamentary election, expected to be in third place.
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