In Germany has opened the polls for parliamentary elections
In Germany’s parliamentary elections began, following which Chancellor Merkel may be re-elected for a fourth term. One of the intrigues of the election is the result of right-wing radicals of the “Alternative for Germany”.
Applicants for places
Polling stations opened at eight in the morning.
According to the results of the parliamentary elections determine the composition of the Bundestag and the government for the next four years.
Just take part in the elections and 47 political parties, if you count the race leader of the CDU/CSU as a single unit. However, the Parliament will get, according to pre-election polls, only six of them.
According to public opinion polls, after the elections will increase the number of parties in Parliament.
It entered the Parliament after the elections in 2013, the CDU/CSU, the Social democratic party of Germany (SPD), the Left party and the Green party will join the Free democratic party (FDP) and the “Alternative for Germany” (ADH). For passage to Parliament parties need to overcome the five percent barrier.
The Christian CDU/CSU leading in the polls for almost the entire campaign. Social services according to the Infratest dimap, a week before the election for the CDU/CSU were ready to vote 37% of the electorate. The lowest voter support of the Christian Democrats demonstrated in March, when their rating was compared to the closest competitor of the SPD: both parties gained 32%. But since may, the CDU/CSU began to increase the gap.
For the social Democrats are going to vote about 20% of the electorate, showed the survey. “Alternative for Germany” takes the third place with 12% of votes, the “left” can get 9% of the votes, the FDP 10%, and “Green” support 8% of the electorate.
The CDU/CSU has already announced that their candidate for the post of Chancellor will be Angela Merkel, who heads the government since 2005. A week before the election about his support for Merkel said 51% of German citizens, according to polls Deutschland Trend.
The results of the vote, the MPs will determine the party coalitions, the largest of them will nominate the candidate for the position of Chancellor.
The candidate in chancellors from the SPD was Martin Schulz. Since 1994 he was a member of the European Parliament, and from 2012 to 2017 led it as President. At the beginning of the election race in February, Schultz was ahead of Merkel. He wanted to see the Chancellor 50% of the population, and the current Chancellor is only 34%. The phenomenon of sudden popularity, even called “the effect of Schultz”. However, by September his approval rating fell to 25%.
German media explained the rise of Schultz’s interest in him as a rookie and also because he campaigned as a populist.
“Alternative for Germany”
For the first time since the Second world war, the Parliament can pass a right-wing party: 12% of voters claim created in 2013, “Alternative for Germany”.
In the elections in 2013, she gained 4.7 percent of the vote in the Parliament has not passed. The popularity of the party received a wave of migration crisis after the decision of Merkel to grant asylum in the country, almost 1 million workers two years ago.