Germany’s election winner ‘US independence has pledged “

Unlock the editor’s digestion free

FT editor Roula Khalaf, chooses his favorite stories in this weekly newsletter.

Friedrich Merz, Germany, promised to “gain independence” from the United States after gaining the right block of the center, and the rise of it for Europe is at the head of a potentially complex coalition.

In a election, where Germany was on the right, Merz’s Christian Democrats (CDU / CSU), forecasts, was the first with about 29 percent of at least one other coalition partner to ensure the majority of parliament.

Merz, as part of the boxes of lawsuits, should restore Germany’s security regulations and needed Washington’s decade, US President Donald Trump’s fate is “largely indifferent”.

“I have nothing to do in this regard,” Merz said that NATO’s future in the coming months.

Germany’s most right alternative to Germany (AFD) was second with the highest number of votes in the highest volume.

The Trump Office opened the AFD to the court, and refused to cooperate with a flirting party with the Nazi-period slogans, and called on Russian sanctions and called on the mass deportations of migrants.

In recent weeks, Trump, with the end of the war in Ukraine, withdrawal with Russia and exploded Europe and threatened us by taking security guarantees from the continent. Germany has the largest contingent of American troops located in Europe.

Prior to Sunday, Trump previously described the election result, “The people of Germany have been dominated in so many years, especially in any sense of energy and immigration.”

Deputy German Deputy Robert Habeck said he encountered a “historical call” that his country needs urgent action. “The United States is not just behind Europe and works against Europe.”

Merz has a small selection to form a coalition with the Social Democratic Party, which won a slightly more than 16 percent of the votes since 1887, but has been the worst result since 1887.

However, it was not clear that there was no need to negotiate the majority of votes, including fundamental reforms, including amendments to the approved limit to the confirmation of the Merz, the Constitution of Merz, the Constitution.

“I know the scale of the problem in front of us,” said Merz. “I am treated with the greatest respect. And I know it will not be easy.”

“We had a difficult campaign, but now we will talk to each other,” said Merz, adding more coalition than expected during the election campaign.

Its political calculations were certainly difficult for the traditional partner of Merz, the Free Democrats (FDP), of course to fall into a period of 5 percent to enter the Bundestag.

Meanwhile, remote sahra Wagenknecht Alliance (BSW) stood on the seats that provide places in parliament – the Merz makes it impossible to build a cluster only with SPD. The Greens would be the most likely third party in a coalition.

Voters have been the highest level since the combination of Germany in 1990, in 1990, according to Exit survey data, 84 percent.

The preliminary results noted a sliding to the right after a number of fatal attacks against immigrants.

German voters strongly burned the unpopular coalition with the greens of Scholz and FDP. The largest economy in the eurozone has been in the last two years since the German industry faced high energy prices and Chinese competition.

Alice Weidel, AFD Leader, since 2021, has almost doubled the vote to ensure the biggest right benefits in Germany since the Second World War.

“We headed a magnificent campaign,” he said.

Scholz said he would step back from the frontline policy after a “bitter result,” Defense Minister Boris Pistorius was “destructive, catastrophic.”

The best members of the Scholz’s broken coalition, the three-year CSU, the best members of the CDU’s strategists and the strategists of the Bavarian sister party, set the main goal to create more than one partner to create a government.

The parties, which are less than 5 percent of the voting under the German electoral system, are removed from the parliament and re-distributed the voices, strengthen successful groups.

Holger Schmieding, an economist in Berenberg Bank, warned of “serious risk” that redness may be strong enough to prevent changes in the German constitution of the parties.

“If so, they have had any loan of debt brake in the constitution,” it was important to spend military and Ukraine, and make it easier for employees and companies, “he said.

Deutsche Bank Executive Christian stitch Sunday evening “Now Germany needs a government that is ready to act as well as talented and ready to act,” he said.

Information visualization by Martin Stabe and Jonathan Vincent