Berlin, (IINA) - Berlin state is likely to get the first leftwing triple-coalition government in its history, after Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union party and the ruling Social Democrats both plummeted to their lowest result in the German capital, the Guardian reported.
The Center-left Social Democrats (SPD) came out top with 21.6% of the vote, ahead of the center-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) with 17.5% while the leftwing Die Linke came third with15.7% ahead of the Greens who garnered 15.1%.
Anti-immigration populists Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) are set to enter the German capital’s state parliament for the first time, with 14.1% votes.
Days before the election, Berlin Mayor Michael Müller had warned that a double-digit score for the AfD “would be seen around the world as a sign of the return of the rightwing and the Nazis in Germany.”
Before an election in which about 2.48 million people were eligible to vote, Müller had indicated that he would prefer not to continue governing the city in a “grand coalition” between center left and center right, seeking a coalition with the Green party instead.
To gain a governing majority, the two parties will require the support of a third party, such as the Left party or the liberal Free Democrats, who managed to get back into parliament with 6.7%.
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