Germany's Social Democrats narrowly defeat Angela Merkel's party, according to preliminary results

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BERLIN — Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats posted their worst-ever election results on Sunday, coming in second to their traditional center-left rival for the first time in a decade and a half as parties prepare for what could be weeks of rocky talks to make a government.

With all 299 districts reporting, the center-right conservatives that have dominated Germany's postwar leadership had just 24 percent of the vote, according to preliminary numbers. That's the lowest mark for the storied party since its founding in 1945.

The center-left Social Democrats, who ran a steady campaign under Olaf Scholz, won 26 percent, a turnaround for the party that started election season in a distant third. It will give him the strongest mandate to form a majority government, but whether he can remains unclear.

And with the results so close, Christian Democratic leader Armin Laschet indicated that he would be doing "everything possible" to make a ruling coalition himself.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/germany-election-merkel-chancellor/2021/09/26/aa711c8a-1b16-11ec-bea8-308ea134594f_story.html

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1. Somehow it doesn't make a difference

German Gov isn't bought and payed for by dark corporate money. Whoever wins they will still have awesome infastructure, an amazing public transportation system, free college, a healthcare system Americans can only dream about and a great economy where 2/3rds of the nation doesn't lose their homes and jobs every ten years.

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2. Yep. Great summary.

I lived there for 3 years in the Army. Getting to know mostly ex-Army guys who had stayed they really woke me up to how different the system is. This was well before I was a parent. They loved living there especially work protections they had and the ability to travel so easily.

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