German Election: What Conservative Merz Means for Eco, Trump, China, Ukraine | Bloomberg The Pulse

 Germany’s conservative opposition leader Friedrich Merz said he’ll move quickly to form a new government after he won Sunday’s federal election with a result that will require him to form a coalition. Merz’s CDU/CSU bloc won 28.6% of the votes, followed by 20.8% for the far-right Alternative for Germany, according to the provisional vote count by the Federal Returning Officer. Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Social Democrats finished third with 16.4%, the party’s worst result since World War II. “There’s no reasonable alternative to forming a government in Germany in a reasonable and timely manner,” Merz said in a debate Sunday night, adding that he wanted to form a coalition within the next two months. “The world isn’t waiting for us — Europe is waiting for Germany, that we take a stronger leadership role again.”

 

Today's guests: Clemens Fuest, IFO Institute President; Marcel Fratzscher, DIW Institute President; Philippa Sigl-Gloeckner, German SPD Member & SPD Bundestag North of Munich Candidate; Volker Wieland, Former Member of German Council of Economic Experts  

 

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