BREAKING: An exit poll in Germany's election shows Chancellor Angela Merkel's Union bloc and the center-left Social Democrats running neck-and-neck. The result will determine who succeeds Merkel after 16 years in power.
A man casts his ballot for the German elections in a polling station in Berlin, Germany, Sunday, Sept. 26, 2021. In background the German national flag.
Another exit poll for ZDF public television put the Social Democrats ahead by 26% to 24%. Both put the environmentalist Greens in third place with about 15% support.The electoral system typically produces coalition governments but post-World War II Germany has never previously seen a winning party take less than 31% of the vote -- or the Union bloc score less than that.
The general secretary of Laschet’s Christian Democratic Union, Paul Ziemiak, acknowledged that his party had suffered “bitter losses” compared with the last election four years ago, in which it scored 32.9% of the vote. But he said it would be a “long election evening” and pointed to the possibility of a coalition with the Greens and the business-friendly Free Democrats.
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