4 hours agoEnd of Angela Merkel era, Germany votes today
Periskopi(5 years ago)
(5 years ago)Some 60.4 million Germans will vote today for the 20th Bundestag, Germany's lower house of parliament, after 16 years under the direction of Angela Merkel. More than 31 million voters are women and about 29 million men. 87 political parties demanded the authorities' permission to participate in this election, [...]
87 political parties demanded the authorities' permission to participate in these elections, out of which 53 obtained permission. Only 7 of them are expected to get 5% wanted to vote in Bundestag, with the left (Day Link), probably the most discredited party in Germany after Afd (Alternative for Germany), the far-right one struggling to send representatives to the lower German chamber.
The temporary election results will be announced after 6:00 pm. They will be counted based on temporary exit polls data. The vote count will continue until the early hours of Monday.
Chancellor Angela Merkel asked the Germans for their vote to support her successor Armin Laschet in a recent effort before going to the ballot boxes this Sunday.
In the race for Chancellors in front of 60-year-old Laschet, it is Social Democrat Olaf Scholz. Recent polls show that they are close to each other with support, turning these elections into the most unpredictable in recent years.
The Social Democrats and conservatives are almost equal in support, by 1 percentage point (26/25%).
Germany votes with proportional, personal system. That means every voter in Germany has two votes -- the so-called first votes and the second votes.
By the first vote, the voter elects a certain candidate, in one of 299 electoral areas. This ensures that each electoral zone, each region, is represented in parliament. By the second vote, the voter votes for a party's national list. It is the second vote deciding on the power under which a party in Bundestag is represented. g.v/abcnews. al
