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The former government colation (SPD, Greens, FDP) did not do a good enough job in the eyes of most germans. Mostly due to sabotage from the FDP who repeatedly blocked proposals and was the main reason for the breaking of the whole coaltition in the first place...

While the artivle claims that the CDU is expected to hold of against the AfD, the situation on the ground is different. Merz has just recently broken tabu by wanting to push an immigration restriction explicitly with votes from the AfD. So fears that the CDU is willing to form a government with them are substantiated by precedent.

This woule give them a majority, but could break the CDU internally. Not all of them like the AfD and Merz is barely human to begin with, especially unpopular with women for good reasons. Even a former chancellor, Angela Merkel, stepped in to explocitly criticise Merz for that move specifically.

Likely it will be CDU + SPD or CDU + SPD + Greens.

All of this is happening while a ban of the AfD is currently underway, but with this result that idea might become compromised.

Summary: Things turned out bad as expected, but as long as a CDU + AfD coalition is avoided, we still have a slim chance to not burn down the whole country.

Nazis won’t be part of the government after this result.
The conservatives have stated before the election that they won’t form a coalition with the far right AfD, the green party or the left party. But with this result, they have a majority with the social democrats alone.

This will be a stable, centrist, boring government, typically German. Too little progress, but no catastrophe, and no threat to EU democracy, nor to international obligations or support for Ukraine. Neither party are Putin bootlickers either.

In the opposition, the greens and the left combined have more seats than the AfD. And 84% turnout is the highest since 1987!!!

Voter turnout reaches 84%, highest since 1990

Voter turnout reached its highest level since German reunification in 1990, with exit poll data suggesting a turnout of 84 per cent.

The only consolation is that the left got nearly 9% and green around 12%, making 21% in total. A shame they won't make it into the coalition though.

Can we gets some thoughts on this, as an outsider I have no idea what this means for the political impacts this might have. Is this good or bad? I would say that the far-right doubling in votes doesnt seem like a good thing. Is the cdu and csu going to combat those far-right views or promote them?

With the need to reduce or eliminate reliance on the US for defense and an increasingly pugilistic Russia, perhaps the next move should be to start a massive scale-up of the German armed forces. This could also give a necessary boost to the economy.

While the scale-up is in progress, a non-aggression pact with Russia would be prudent. Germany could always turn on them when the time is right.

I keep saying, you guys only strengthen the other side when you try to control what people are allowed to say and even think.

Focus on up vs. down, not left vs. right. We're being distracted by cultural issues while the ruling class fucks us with fiscal ones.

Every single person who focuses on the culture war over the class war is playing right into the hands of our rulers.

Germans managed to buy themselves time, but I'm still worried by AFD's gains. It's good to hear Merz is at least unwilling to form a coalition with AFD, but I don't know how long that's going to last since Merz is a piece of shit too.

A CDU/CSU + SPD coalition seems like peak neoliberalism though, so fascism is going to knock on Germany's door again. Hopefully those plans to ban AFD seriously materialize before then.

The main coalition scenarios

The Christian Democratic Union (CDU), led by Friedrich Merz, is widely expected to win the election with around 30 per cent of the vote. 

Such a result would be only six percentage points higher than its historically worst performance in 2021. Anything below 30 per cent would be a disappointment for Merz, who has sought to contain the rise of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), which is projected to win one in five votes on Sunday.

Merz has expressed willingness to govern with the Social Democrats (SPD) and the Greens, while ruling out any coalition with the AfD. However, coalition negotiations could become complicated if smaller parties surpass the 5 per cent vote threshold and enter parliament.

A more fragmented Bundestag could make a two-party coalition unfeasible, potentially forcing Merz into a three-party alliance — a scenario reminiscent of the dysfunctional coalition between the SPD, the Greens, and the Free Democrats (FDP).

Germany can only support genocide for so long without going full fash... much like USA.