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German election results live: CDU, AfD expect to make gains as count begins

23 February 2025

This content originally appeared on Al Jazeera.

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A resident casts a vote at a polling station in Berlin, Germany, on Sunday, February 23, 2025, during the German national election [Michael Probst/AP Photo]

Germany’s election authority says 52 percent of eligible voters had cast their ballots four hours before the closure of polling stations.
Pre-election polls show the conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) leading with 30 percent, the far-right Alternative fur Deutschland (AfD) slated to take 20 percent, and the incumbent Social Democratic Party (SPD) in third place with 15 percent.

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