The rate of participation in the legislatures of Germany was only higher in 1987, with 83.4%. After reunification, the highest participation rate had been in 1998, with 82.2%, a number now exceeded.
Participation in federal elections in Germany rose on Sunday to between 83% and 84%, according to predictions of ZDF and ARD public broadcasters, the highest number since the country’s reunification in 1990.
In the 2021 legislative elections, the participation rate was 76.4 %, so this time, according to the projections, would have been exceeded at 6.6 or 7.6 points.
According to the NTV channel, the participation rate was only higher in 1987, with 83.4%. After reunification, the highest participation rate was recorded in 1998, with 82.2%.
The fact that the absence of the polls was on its way to a record was already evident when the central Electoral Commission of Germany announced a 52% influx at 14:00 locations (less one hour in Lisbon), when in 2021 this value was around 36 , 5% at the same time.
Conservatives win, far-right celebration
About 59.2 million Germans were called to the polls to elect the 630 Bundestag deputies (Baixa of Parliament).
According to projections, the conservative bloc, formed by the Democratic Union (CDU) and the Bavarian Social-Christian Union (CSU), won the elections with about 29% of the votes, followed by the far-right party alternative party For Germany (AFD), which almost doubled its vote from 2021 to 19.5%.
The Social Democrat (SPD), the Olaf Scholz Chancellor, will have obtained about 16%, while the Greens, a coalition partner, had between 12.4 and 13% of the votes. The left (Die Linke) will have reached about 8.5%, above 4.9% of 2012.
According to the projections, the FDP liberals, whose departure from the coalition led by Scholz last November, precipitated the holding of early elections – were scheduled for late September – and the Left Populist Alliance Sahra Wagenknecht (BSW) were below 5 % needed to enter parliament.
