On September 24, German Chancellor Angela
Merkel’s conservative CDU/CSU bloc won the polls, securing 33% of the vote.
MOSCOW,
September 25. /TASS/. The outcome of Sunday’s elections to the lower house of
German parliament, the Bundestag, was predictable, a senior Russian State Duma
lawmaker, Leonid Slutsky, said on Monday.
"The
outcome of elections to Germany’s Bundestag was very predictable - both the
victory of Angela Merkel’s CDU/CSU bloc and the election to the parliament of
the right-wing Alternative for Germany party. The latter was not a sensation
for me personally, although the AfD leaders call their result an earthquake for
Germany," said Slutsky, who chairs the International Affairs Committee of
the lower house of the Russian parliament.
The polls signal the overall crisis in Europe linked to the social and economic situation and the problems arising from the unprecedented migrant flows. "The Alternative for Germany is a counterpart for France’s National Front, which against this background received its highest percentage in the party’s history at the elections in the Fifth Republic," he said.
Europe is
searching for "a new idea that may return the freedom of choice for
Europeans and independence from policy of the big overseas brother," the
lawmaker stressed.
Slutsky
voiced hope that "this German parliament will work constructively and
without any contradictions." "For our part, the State Duma will try
to boost cooperation with the Bundestag and look for new approaches for
cooperation," he vowed.
On Sunday,
Germany held parliamentary elections. German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s
conservative CDU/CSU bloc won the polls, securing 33% of the vote, according to
the official preliminary results published by Germany’s Federal Returning
Officer Dieter Sarreither overnight.
The Social
Democratic Party (SPD) comes second with 20.5% of the vote, the worst result in
its history. The right-wing Alternative for Germany party will for the first
time enter the Bundestag, with 12.6% of the vote.
Source: ITAR-TASS 25-09-2017
