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The 2024 European Parliament election was the first national election to be held in Germany since the 2021 federal election, in which former Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats CDU-CSU lost to the Social Democratic Party (SPD) led by Olaf Scholz [6] who formed a "traffic light coalition" with the Free Democratic Party (FDP) and the Alliance 90/The Greens.
BERLIN — The top candidate for Germany’s far-right Alternative for Germany party, which finished second in the European election with 15.9% of the votes, will not be part of the future ...
The 2024 European Parliament election was held in the European Union (EU) between 6 and 9 June 2024. [4] It was the tenth parliamentary election since the first direct elections in 1979 , and the first European Parliament election after Brexit .
The leftist Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance (BSW), like the AfD, has performed strongly in European parliament elections and local elections in recent months. But the BSW are polling at around 8 per ...
BERLIN (Reuters) -President Frank-Walter Steinmeier on Friday dissolved Germany's lower house of parliament to pave the way for snap elections on Feb. 23 following the collapse of Chancellor Olaf ...
European People's Party: 171 –6: Party of European Socialists: 129 –7: European Conservatives and Reformists Party: 58 +6: Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe Party: 58 –13: Identity and Democracy Party: 57 –19: European Green Party: 42 –12: Party of the European Left: 29 +1: European Democratic Party: 9 –1: European Free ...
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz lost a no-confidence vote Monday in the country's Parliament, paving the way for a snap election in February next year. Confidence votes in Germany are relatively rare.
This would represent an increase of more than 6% compared to the 2019 election, which had 59.8% turnout. It would also be the highest turnout since the first EU parliament election in Austria in 1996, when turnout was 67.7%. Other pollsters like the Lazarsfeld Society or Spectra are estimating turnout at between 52% to 63%.