Participation in Germany’s general elections amounted to 52 % until 14.00 GMTfour hours after the closure of the electoral colleges, announced the president of the Central Electoral Commission, Ruth Brand, who also assured that there have been no remarkable incidents.
In the general elections of 2021 at this time the participation was 36.5 %. In a brief statement before the media, Brand explained that this percentage excludes the vote by mail. Almost 60 million citizens They are summoned to the polls this Sunday to choose a new parliament of 630 seats.
The president of the Electoral Commission, usually head of the Federal Statistics Office of Germany, said that this 52 %figure, which described as “high”, is a projection based on the data of participation in chosen electoral colleges.
Brand expressed his hope that the electoral day is characterized by high electoral participation, which in 2021 reached 76.4 %, and called all those who have not yet deposited their vote, to do so before 17.00 GMT, when Electoral schools close.
The polls give as a favorite in these elections to the conservative block formed by the Cristianodemócata (CDU) union, led by the candidate for the Foreign Ministry, Friedrich Merz, and its twin Social Cristian Union (CSU) Bavara, with about 30 % of the votes.
Secondly, in intention to vote, the alternative ultra -rightist is placed for Germany (AFD), which with 21 % more than would double its 2021 results, followed by the Chancellor’s Social Democrats, Olaf Scholz Con un 15 %.
The green would occupy the fourth place with 12.5 % -13 % and the left with 7 or 7.5 % the fifth. There is the unknown of whether the liberals and left -wing populist Alianza Sahra Wagenknecht (BSW) will overcome the 5 % barrier to access the lower house or ‘Bundestag’.
Scholz and Merz deposited their vote in their corresponding electoral schools almost at the same time, the first in Potsdam (east) and the second in Niedereimer (west) before moving to Berlin to wait for the polls at the ballot box and the counting of the votes.
The candidate of the Greens, the Vice Chancellor and Minister of Economy and Climate, Robert Habeck, already made his vote in advance at his electoral premises of Flensburg (North). Meanwhile, the AFD candidate, Alice Weidel, who returned to receive the open support of the technological magnate this Sunday
Elon Musk in his social networks, he had already voted by mail
In its social network X, Musk, which in its account has set an entry in which you can see several emoticons of the German flag accompanied by a brief “Afd!”, He shared a message with a photo in which a ballot is seen with the crossings on the AFD boxes in one of the German electoral schools.
Musk accompanies the message with the comment “cool“(great). Among the few incidents of the electoral day, the A man with a knife that insulted the auditors of the Electoral Table at a Colegio de Renania del Norte-Westfalia, in the west of the country, after which he was arrested.
In the city of Rostock, in northern Germany, the watchman of an electoral school discovered several painted with swastika, unconstitutional symbol, and slogans with insults to antifascists.
