German Electioncast! (The Results)
Newscast
BBC
4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 23 February 2025
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Today, we look at the projected election results from Germany.
The conservative Christian Democrats (CDU)/CSU party will be the largest party in the next German parliament with 30% of the vote and will look to form a coalition government, though not with the party that looks to have come second, the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD).
That’s because of a pact among the parties further to the centre not to work with those who they view as too extreme.
Europe editor Katya Adler gives her take from Berlin. Katja Hoyer, historian, journalist and author of Beyond the Wall: East Germany 1949-1990, puts it into historical context. Patrick English, director of political analytics at YouGov explains what the numbers tell us.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:04.9 | It is 18 minutes past six on Sunday evening, the evening of the German election. |
| 0:11.3 | And if you've ever wondered what the election exit poll moment sounds like in Germany, you're in luck. |
| 0:18.1 | Three, two, one. |
| 0:22.1 | The prognose of the foreign group, |
| 0:22.9 | the SPD by 16.5% |
| 0:25.3 | very deutely |
| 0:26.1 | forlusts, the |
| 0:27.1 | bestest of the |
| 0:28.3 | government. |
| 0:29.1 | CDU, CSU, |
| 0:30.5 | 8.5% |
| 0:31.6 | Well, I got |
| 0:32.8 | 3-2-1 |
| 0:34.5 | and I understood |
| 0:35.9 | the bong noise, |
| 0:37.4 | but that's about it. |
| 0:39.0 | However, I am told that what German broadcaster ZDF's presenter was saying at 5pm in the UK, |
| 0:45.4 | 6pm German time was that Friedrich Merz and his Christian Democrats have an unassailable lead, |
| 0:52.1 | according to the projections, and that the anti-immigration alternative for Germany, the AFD party, |
| 0:57.5 | is set, as lots of people suspected it would, |
| 1:00.5 | to become the second biggest force in German politics. |
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