Tonight on PBS News Weekend, Germany goes to the polls in an election that could have sweeping

consequences for U.S.-European relations.

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and Ukraine. And what President Trump shifting positions on Russia and Ukraine.

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So it is something that really encompasses your whole life.

Good evening. I'm John Yang. We begin tonight with two big stories overseas. In Germany, voters went to the polls in a national election that saw a surge in support for the far right. From Berlin, special correspondent Malcolm Brabant has our report.

In the end, there were no surprises. The German people delivered what the opinion polls predicted.

They turned substantially right,

rejecting the left-leaning coalition that has governed for the past four years.

The center-right Christian Democrats, or CDU, secured the most votes,

and their leader, Friedrich Meertz, is in pole position to become the country's next

chancellor.

But he needs the support of at least two other parties to have a majority in parliament,

the Bundestag.

We must now quickly regain our ability to act so that we can do the right thing at home,

so that we can be present

in Europe again, so that the world realizes that Germany is being governed reliably

again.

The party celebrating the most is the one that came second, the anti-immigrant alternative

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