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The SPD narrowly wins against Merkel’s party

Voting is over in Germany’s national elections. The Social Democratic Party (SPD) has won the election held on Sunday (September 26). This marked the end of the 16-year rule of the outgoing Chancellor Angela Merkel’s CDU / CSU party. The news was published by BBC and news agency Reuters.

According to preliminary results, The SPD secured 25.7% of the vote, while the ruling conservative CDU/CSU bloc gained 24.1%.

The Greens achieved the best result in their party’s history, coming in third with 14.8% of the ballot.

A coalition must now be created to form a government.

SDP leader Olaf Scholz earlier said his party had a clear mandate to rule, as his party started to edge into the lead.

The SPD narrowly wins against Merkel's party
Angela Merkel approaches Armin Laschet on stage

Exit polls predicted a dead heat, but this election has been unpredictable from the start, and the result was never going to be the end of the story. For one thing, the outgoing chancellor is going nowhere until the coalition is formed – and that may have to wait until Christmas.

The successor’s task is to lead Europe’s foremost economy over the next four years, with climate change at the top of voters’ agenda.

Mr Scholz’s SPD supporters greeted him in raptures, but it was only later when his party edged into the lead that he told a televised audience the voters had given him the job of forming a “good, pragmatic government for Germany”.

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