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German Election Exit Polls: Former Merkel Party Takes Top Spot

Populist AfD Surges to Second Place

Leftist Social Democrats Collapse

A general view shows volunteers counting the postal votes at the Cologne Trade Fair Center

The exit polls for the federal elections in Germany predict that the neo-liberal Christian Democrats have come out on top, with the support of around one in three voters, with the populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) coming in a strong second place at nearly 20 per cent, beating out all members of the former ‘traffic light’ coalition government of likely outgoing Chancellor Olaf Scholz.


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