Ok, as a citizen of neighboring country I need some serious explanation

Looking at Germany's election results by constituency and realising it's essentially a map of East and West Germany absolutely blew my mind. Really shows how fascism targets wealth disparity.

https://flipboard.com/@politicoeurope/politico-europe-brcuar8rz/-/a-BjLFpa7hQmebFCmuqkVVoA%3Aa%3A2843202212-%2F0

If these remain the results, and #BSW and #FDP do not reach over 5%, this will be a good day for #germany, the #EU and #Europe overall.

#GermanyElection Looks like the old guard Socialists took the biggest hit
https://p.dw.com/p/4qwji

President Donald Trump congratulated the conservative party on their election victory in Germany.

#germany #election forecast:

so for now

it looks like these guys are out:
libertarians (FDP): 4.7%
antivaxxer tin foil hats (BSW): 4.9%

these are in:
conservatives (CDU): 28.6%
social democrats (SPD): 16.3%
greens: 12.3%
left: 8.5%
nazis (AFD): 20.4%

Chancellor Olaf Scholz conceded defeat for Social Democrats, which had their worst postwar result.

https://buff.ly/41fBoIj

If you’re not living in the DACH region (Germany, Austria, Switzerland), you might not fully grasp our political culture—or why these elections are so alarming. Let me explain:

The AfD (a far-right to extremist party with some outright neo-Nazis in their ranks) received only around 20% of the votes, instead of the 30% many of us feared. Good news, right? Well, not really…

Friedrich Merz, the CDU/CSU candidate—widely regarded as a conservative capitalist with a slight rightward tilt— just a few weeks ago, has broken the long-standing consensus not to collaborate with the AfD.

This is the same Friedrich Merz from the same party that once stood for pragmatism and long-term stability (remember Angela Merkel?). Yet, his victory speech sounded almost indistinguishable from the emotionally-charged, AfD’s anti-left-rhetoric.

Both the decision to break a decades-old taboo by opening the door to working with extremists and the shift toward emotionally charged, populist rhetoric mark a profound change in Germany’s political landscape.

So, while the AfD may have "only" secured 20%, the real story is that the conservative mainstream just took a massive step to the right. The political spectrum is shifting—which only means extremists will have to become even more extreme to differentiate themselves.

No, Europe is not fine.
We are not fine.

Thank you for reading.

EDIT: It was in fact not his victory-speech, but one he made a few days ago, pre elaction.

EDIT#2: The collaboration mentioned was about immigration policies. Didn't mean to imply coalition-talks.

honestly at this point, crystal ball gazing, i think is the most likely. that would be the angela merkel-thing. germans running back to "safety".

#germany #election forecast:

so for now

it looks like these guys are out:
libertarians (FDP): 4.9%
antivaxxer tin foil hats (BSW): 4.8%

these are in:
conservatives (CDU): 28.8%
social democrats (SPD): 16.2%
greens: 12.7%
left: 8.5%
nazis (AFD): 20.2%

#germany #election forecast:

so for now

it looks like these guys are out:
libertarians (FDP): 4.9%
antivaxxer tin foil hats (BSW): 4.8%

these are in:
conservatives (CDU): 28.9%
social democrats (SPD): 16.2%
greens: 13.0%
left: 8.5%
nazis (AFD): 19.9%

#germany #election forecast:

conservatives (CDU): 28.9%
social democrats (SPD): 16.2%
greens: 13.0%
left: 8.5%
libertarians (FDP): 4.9%
antivaxxer tin foil hats (BSW): 4.8%
nazis (AFD): 19.9%

#GermanyElection Tuning out for abit. Man has to cook and eat! Arab proverb "trust in Allah but tie your camel" for hopeful result.!

AFD has surprisingly large portion of votes it seems according to the Finnish broadcast forecast results 19:24.

Opposition wins parliamentary elections in Germany: Friedrich Merz to become the next Chancellor of Germany.

According to exit polls, the opposition CDU/CSU bloc, led by chancellor candidate Merz, won the German parliamentary elections with 29%. Alternative for Germany (AfD) took second place with 19.5%, while the SPD, led by incumbent Chancellor Scholz, came third with 16%.

EDITED TO ADD: Thank you to all of the Germans who replied to the post below with useful information. I'm grateful for all of the replies. I'm sorry that the outcome of the election wasn't better, and hope that the conservatives in your country will behave more ethically than the conservatives in certain other countries.

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There's an election happening in Germany tomorrow. I care deeply about it, but know much less than I should. The media here in the US hardly ever mentions it, except to report on Elon's meddling.

Among the many things I don't know is when to expect results. I'm aware that it may take months for a stable coalition to form, but can anyone tell me when to expect basic results?

My phone's data plan is very limited, so going to news sites with videos or lots of photos means using up my data too quickly and then not being able to use my phone for the rest of the month. I currently get most of my news from https://lite.cnn.com/ and https://www.cbc.ca/lite/news because they are the best sites I've found for low-bandwith news. If anyone can recommend a better LOW-BANDWIDTH site for German news, please share it. By "low-bandwith", I mean text-only or with only very occasional photos. Unfortunately, my knowledge of German is extremely limited, so I need news to be in English or Spanish. If necessary, I can read Romance languages other than Spanish, but only slowly and with much bewilderment.