Reuters: Social Democrats win German election / Formation of three-party government most likely option

According to Fars News Agency International Group, Reuters reports that the results of the polls show that the Social Democratic Party wins the parliamentary elections on Sunday in Germany and for the first time in the last 16 years can lead the formation of the Berlin government. End Angela Merkel and Conservative rule.

According to opinion polls conducted by Germany’s ZDF network, the center-left Social Democrats are on the verge of gaining 26 percent of the vote, slightly higher than the Merkel-backed Christian Democratic Union and Social Christian Democrats. According to the poll, Christian Unity parties won 24.5 percent of the vote.

However, Reuters says both parties claim they can take the lead in forming a coalition government.

“Given that none of the leading parties has a majority vote to form an independent government and has not sought to form their own unpleasant coalition over the past four years, the most likely option is to form a three-party government, which may be close to conservatives,” he said. Merkel be guided.

The Guardian reports that Angela Merkel will remain acting Chancellor of Germany until a coalition government is formed immediately.

Forming a new coalition may take months and include smaller parties such as the Greens and the Liberal Democrats.

“We are leading in opinion polls,” Social Democrat Olaf Schultz said in a statement.

“This is an encouraging and clear message to make sure we have a good and pragmatic government for Germany,” he told his party supporters.

Germany’s parliamentary elections, one of the most important in the country over the past decade, began at 8 a.m. local time on Sunday.

About 60.4 million people were eligible to vote, and it is not yet clear how many participated in the election.

About 47 parties, large and small, which is the largest number of parties since the reunification of West and East Germany, participated in the election, but the main competition is between the Christian Democratic Union, the Social Democrats, the Greens, the Free Democratic Party and the Alternative Party for Germany.

Speculation and opinion polls have shown that left-wing parties have a good chance of entering parliament. About 6,211 people are vying for seats in the German parliament in this crucial election, of which 2,024 are women.

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