James McKenzie
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Reuters World News · Paramount deal, Germany elections, AI at the UN (Updated) · 21 Sep 2026
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Voters tended to have uh um moved away from the mainstream the old mainstream parties, the Eastern Democrats and the Social um uh the Social Democrats the in the two parties that have uh basically divided up the Chancellor's office between them uh throughout the history of the Federal Republic since the war.
Uh they're moving more and more away from the S parties towards the AFT, but also towards the left parties we saw here in in Berlin.
And that is a sign uh for Nerds himself, uh German mainstream parties, but also for parties in the rest of Europe, where there are also elections this year.
It is a disaster.
Reuters tend to have moved away from the mainstream, the old mainstream parties, the Christian Democrats and the Social Democrats, the two parties that have basically divided up the Chancellor's office between them throughout the history of the Federal Republic since the war.
They're moving more and more away from those parties towards the AFT and also towards the left party, as we saw here in Berlin.
And that is a sign for Netz himself, for German mainstream parties, but also for parties in the rest of Europe, where also elections are scheduled.
As things stand at the moment, it looks like the social Democrat state premier, who's someone called Manuela Schwesig, she looks as though she'll be able to form a coalition and stay in power.
but the AFD is likely to be the largest single party.
So we can see they're still very strongly placed, but the kind of coalition dynamics are playing against them because they've been isolated by the other parties.
None of the other bigger parties wants to go into a coalition with them.
The CDU, the Merz's party, the Christian Democrats, they're in a very, very weak position in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.
They're down at 7% in the opinion polls.
And they're really running the risk of falling under 5%, which is the really vital level which you need to get into parliament in the first place.
So they might get shut out of parliament.
That would be really a black eye for Merz.
There's another election, which is in Berlin, the capital, which also counts as a state in the German federal system.
And the CDU could lose the
The mayor of Berlin is currently a CDU politician and they're running sort of neck and neck with the far left party and what happens there will also need to be decided on Sunday.
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