Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Social Democrats and coalition partners suffer major losses in European Parliament elections, far-right AfD comes in 2nd with 16 percent.
Left-wing populist party BSW sharply criticised Chancellor Scholz and coalition partners for delivering weapons to Ukraine, and called for diplomatic initiatives to end the Russia -Ukraine war. / Photo: AFP
Scholz’s coalition partner the Greens crashed to 11.9 percent, sharply down from the 20.5 percent of the vote it scored five years ago. The main opposition Christian Democrats won the biggest share of the vote with 30.2 percent, managing to increase their vote modestly from 28.9 percent.The anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany has been projected to finish second with a record 16 percent of the vote, up from 11 percent in the last election.
Meanwhile, the newly formed left-wing populist party, Bundnis Sahra Wagenknecht , managed to win 6.1 percent of the vote in its first European election.
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