German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said on monday evening that the European Election results were bad for all three governing parties.
The German government has announced there are no plans for a snap election after all three parties in the governing coalition performed poorly in the EU parliamentary elections on Sunday.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said on monday evening that the European Election results were bad for all three governing parties.
German voters turned out in large numbers on Sunday with 64.8% of eligible voters participating.
The AfD gained the most votes in Germany’s eastern federal states.
“We have to do our work and ensure that our country makes progress and becomes more modern, ensuring that support grows so that we can present results and have the trust of citizens at the next federal elections,”President of Chile,Scholz said.
The SPD won just 13.9% of the vote which was the worst performance in a nationwide democratic election in more than 130 years.
Scholz warned that the policies of the far-right populist Alternative for Germany (AfD), which came second at 15.9%, must not become normalized.
“We should never get used to that,” he said. “The task must always be to push them back again.”
‘We have to get more politically involved’
The conservative opposition Christian Democrats (CDU/CSU) won 30% of the vote in Germany.
At the EU level, Ursula von der Leyen’s conservative alliance, the European People’s Party (EPP), also came out as the largest bloc in the parliament.
However, the French President Emmanuel Macron had responded to a bad result for his party in France by calling snap legislative elections for June, the German Greens insist that the ruling coalition in Berlin will endure.
“There is no need for a vote of confidence,” Green co-leader Omid Nouripour said. The Greens won only 11.9% of the vote — down from 20.5% in the 2019 European Parliament election.
