Episode 2854
2025 German federal election
Mon, 2025-Feb-24 05:32 UTC
Length - 2:16
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With 483,585 views on Sunday, 23 February 2025 our article of the day is 2025 German federal election.
A federal election was held in Germany on 23 February 2025 to elect the 630 members of the 21st Bundestag. It is the fourth snap election in the history of the post-war Federal Republic of Germany after those in 1972, 1983, and 2005.
The election had been prospectively scheduled for 28 September 2025 but was brought forward due to the collapse of the governing coalition during the 2024 German government crisis.
Exit polls showed the CDU/CSU on top, albeit with its second-worst result. The AfD came out in second place and achieved a historically high result. The SPD fell to third place and below 20% for the first time since 1933, reaching its worst result in vote share terms since the 1887 federal election held in the German Empire. This made it the first post-World War II election in which a party other than the CDU/CSU or the SPD came in second place. The Greens declined in vote share while Die Linke reached fifth place. Neither the FDP nor the BSW exceeded the 5% threshold for parliamentary representation.
Voter turnout was 82.5%, the highest since German reunification.
This recording reflects the Wikipedia text as of 05:32 UTC on Monday, 24 February 2025.
For the full current version of the article, see 2025 German federal election on Wikipedia.
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