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German election tracker: who will be the next chancellor? | 2021 German Federal Election


The Germans will vote for a new Bundestag or Bundestag on Sunday, September 26.The result-after coalition negotiations that may involve two or three parties-will determine who will succeed Angela Merkel, He stepped down as prime minister after 16 years.

For a long time, the two-way alliance between the conservative CDU and the German Green Party seems to be the most likely outcome. However, Both sides have a bad time In their response to the devastating flood that hit Germany in July, they boosted the confidence of small parties.

The German federal elections are conducted on a proportional basis, so the share of votes provided by the voting company should be regarded as a fairly straightforward conversion into the share of seats in the resulting parliament. Only parties with less than 5% of the national vote or less than three directly elected constituency seats can obtain proportional parliamentary seats.