Friedrich Merz was not elected Chancellor of Germany in the first parliamentary vote.

He received 310 votes, falling short of the required minimum of 316.

Source: https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/merz-fails-be-elected-chancellor-by-german-parliament-2025-05-06/

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Ok, as a citizen of neighboring country I need some serious explanation

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Looking at Germany's election results by constituency and realising it's essentially a map of East and West Germany absolutely blew my mind. Really shows how fascism targets wealth disparity.

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Když jsem tohle https://www.novinky.cz/clanek/volby-afd-ovladla-spolkove-zeme-vychodu-berlin-necekane-dobyla-levice-40510280 viděl, tak mě napadla, že tu mapu už jsem někde viděl.

Vlevo spolkové země kde vyhrálo volby AFD a vpravo? NDR! Asi to není náhoda, nebo se pletu? #GermanyElection

International media goes like
"centre-right wins German election"..

Stop the normalisation! How can open Nazi collaborators be called centre right? See last week in January in parliament. CDU CSU is far-right ad yuck!

By now, the centre-right is SPD, self-labelled "socialist" .
This particular pull occurred due to the media<->Nazi clickbait-symbiosis and its organic normalisation of anti-migrant hate mongering.

Plus weak and stupid SPD leadership who failed to turn the debate away from the topic and instead tried to assure citizens that they can expect anti-migrant laws from SPD too.
So 1.76mio former SPD voters went to CDU CSU who can be trusted to serve this oh-so-important topic best.
And half a million former SPD-voters went to the Left, LINKE, the most outspoken #Antifa.

Journalism is really utterly failing. Their professional ethos to "report what's happening" simply doesn't fit in a political landscape that's increasingly dominated by liars and emotional engineering.

This rule in journalism has already failed us in the climate realm, as their own Wolfgang Blau keeps reminding them.

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If these remain the results, and #BSW and #FDP do not reach over 5%, this will be a good day for #germany, the #EU and #Europe overall.

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