Germany's conservatives have won the national election, with Merz set to become chancellor. The AfD achieved their best result, coming second, while Olaf Scholz accepted defeat.
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00:00And we have some news just coming in this morning. Germany's opposition conservatives
00:05have won the national election in the country, putting Frederick Merz on track to be the
00:10next chancellor. Chancellor Olaf Schloss concedes defeats, Merz says he will form the new government
00:16quickly for Germany to be present in Europe again. Germany's conservatives have won Sunday's
00:23elections with their leader Merz to become the next chancellor, followed by the far-right
00:28AfD in second place after record gains, according to the exit polls.
00:59All right, getting in detail as far as the elections are concerned, with Merz claiming a win, AfD comes at second.
01:07CDU's Merz claims a win in the country. These are the conservatives who have won this time around.
01:13Polls give a victory to Germany's opposition conservatives in the national election, putting leader Merz on track to be the next chancellor,
01:25with the far-right Alternative for Germany coming in second, its best ever result.
01:31Gaurav Sawant getting in more details on that story this morning.
01:34Gaurav, good morning. First of all, talk to us a little about this win for the conservatives.
01:40Merz has made a significant statement, saying that this is going to be his attempt now to put Germany back in Europe once again.
01:49So it's a very interesting development that's taking place. These are exit polls that show the opposition conservatives.
01:56They're winning with winning German election record, AfD achieving about 20% of vote.
02:05Coalition talks are only now set to begin. And on this, you know, Donald Trump looks like the conservative party in Germany has won the big and highly anticipated election.
02:16Much like the USA, the people of Germany got tired of no common sense agenda.
02:21Especially very important aspect here is the immigration aspect, the number of illegals who've come into Germany.
02:28And it's a good day for Germany and for the United States and the leadership of Donald Trump. Congratulations to all.
02:35You remember Georgia Maloney just yesterday, a statement of hers went viral where she said that conservatives across the world are now coming together.
02:44You know, whether it's Donald Trump in America or Georgia Maloney in Italy, and she said maybe even Narendra Modi in India.
02:54And this is what the left is unable to swallow. Now, this is what appears to be happening even in Germany.
03:03You'd recall there's been a sharp spike in crimes against women in other crimes in Germany because a large number of illegal Syrians and people from Turkey and Afghanistan who've come into Germany.
03:16There's been a national outcry. But what happens next remains to be seen. Donald Trump's statement becomes extremely interesting at a time when Elon Musk was being accused of interfering in Germany's elections also.
03:31Well, absolutely. Gaurav, be with us. I'll just come back to you in a moment from now in related news, which is breaking at this point in time.
03:38A reaction from President Donald Trump. Now, Trump has hailed conservatives' victory in Germany.
03:46Trump has said conservatives' victory is a great day for Germany. Germans got tired of no common sense agenda.
03:53Germany's conservatives have won Sunday's elections with their leader Merz now set to become the next chancellor, followed by the far-right AFD, to tell our viewers in second place after record gains, according to exit polls, like Gaurav is telling us.
04:08In fact, Gaurav, what we also saw was that Merz did not even wait for the final results really before talking about what he intends to do next.
04:17A significant statement coming in, you know, talking about the fact that NATO could be soon dead. How do you look at this statement in the context of the ongoing war as well?
04:29Well, you know, that's a very interesting question because Donald Trump expects NATO to spend much more to look after not just Ukraine, but also better protect England.
04:44And Ukraine at the same time has been saying that Europe must have its own army. But where will the money come from?
04:51You know, the last three years of this war has almost drained the coffers of several European countries. Donald Trump has repeatedly said that he will not be funding this war.
05:01The center-right Christian Democratic Union, along with the Bavarian party, the Christian Social Union, you know, they've emerged as this largest bloc.
05:11They've secured about 28.5%. Now it remains to be seen whether they're able to come together and form their government.
05:20But one thing, as you rightly pointed out, it's a huge setback to Chancellor Olaf Scholz, SPD, the Social Democratic Party.
05:28They've suffered a massive, massive setback dropping to the third position in these elections.
05:34And this goes on to indicate that Olaf Scholz's policies of the support to Ukraine or the rise in prices of gas, the inflation, the unemployment, the illegals, all of that, perhaps German stuff is enough.
05:49All right, Gaurav, getting us those details. I want to thank you for the moment, Gaurav Sawant, putting that big story into perspective.
05:56We have a reaction, in fact, from the newly appointed chancellor. Listen in to what he had said.
06:03...because CDU and CSU have worked well together and we have prepared very, very well for this election and also for taking over government responsibility.
06:13First of all, I would like to thank Markus Söder, the party chairman of the CSU. Thank you very much for the very, very good cooperation of CDU and CSU.