a critical election is the party whose leader is a strong advocate for Ukraine and a vocal critic of the Trump Administration.
Germany’s largest turnout in decades (more than 80%) brought victory to the center-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and its standard-bearer Friedrich Merz, a businessman who has long sought the chancellorship. A far-right party, the AfD, took second, while the party of Chancellor Olaf Scholz finished third.
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