Germany is the country that has the most seats in the European Parliament, with 96 seats. Of them, 31 will be occupied by members of the conservative bloc that make up the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and its Bavarian partner (CSU) after clearly winning the 2024 European elections. And the main German opposition force managed exceed the threshold of 30% of the votes and dealt a severe blow to Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Social Democratic Party (SPD), which has been relegated to third place with 13.9% of the votes.
In this sense, Scholz’s formation has been the big loser, and not for winning bronze, but for having been surpassed by the extreme right option. Alternative for Germany (AfD). In fact, the eurosceptic party will take Brussels to 15 of its MEPsdespite the fact that he has been linked to Chinese espionage scandals since his main candidate tried to whitewash Nazism.
Thus, in the next legislature the majority of German seats will be distributed between the CDU and AfD. Interestingly, this partition can be clearly seen on the vote distribution map in the country. An image showing a Germany divided in two…and not in any way, but following borders similar to those that marked the territory after the Second World War and until the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.
Map of the results of the European elections in Germany. In gray, CDU/CSU, in blue, AfD.
The other German surprise
Beyond the tremendous rise of the radical right party (which is included in a phenomenon that has shaken the entire European Union in these elections), at the other end of the German political spectrum there has also been a surprise. Sahra Wagenknecht, the former deputy of the far-left party Die Linke who founded her own party with populist overtones BSW, has made her debut with a good note: she has obtained 6.3% of the votes. That is to say, he has overtaken Die Linke and the Liberal Party.
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