Bundestag Election - CDU Party - Friedrich Merz

Bundestag Election - CDU Party - Friedrich Merz

Friedrich Merz (C), chancellor candidate of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and the Christian Social Union (CSU), is congratulated as the CDU/CSU bloc has taken the lead in the country's 2025 federal election, at the CDU headquarters in Berlin, Germany, Feb. 23, 2025. Germany's conservative bloc, the CDU and the CSU, has taken the lead in the country's 2025 federal election, preliminary results have showed. CDU/CSU secured 28.6 percent of the vote, followed by the Alternative for Germany (AfD) with 20.8 percent and the Social Democratic Party (SPD) with 16.4 percent, according to the preliminary results released by the Federal Returning Officer in the early hours of Monday. Photo by Du Zheyu/Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM

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