Germans head to the polls in critical election with far-right gains expected
2025-02-23 17:04:11 source：CNBC
February 23, 2025
Germans headed to the polls on Sunday to vote in the 2025 federal election, which is all but guaranteed to result in a new chancellor taking over from Olaf Scholz to lead Europe's largest economy.
The Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and its affiliate the Christian Social Union (CSU) have been polling in first place in the lead-up to the election, putting their lead candidate Friedrich Merz in line for chancellorship.
The far-right Alternative fuer Deutschland (AfD) is expected to come second in line, ahead of Scholz's Social Democratic Party (SPD) and the Greens, which have also been part of the most recent ruling coalition that collapsed late last year.
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