[image: Friedrich Merz, leader of Germany’s conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and his party’s main candidate for Chancellor addresses supporters after the first exit polls in the German general elections were announced on TV during the electoral evening in Berlin on February 23, 2025.]
President Trump has a plan to save Europe, and the results of Sunday’s election in Germany show it’s working.
The center-right Christian Democrats won the most seats <nypost.com/2025/02/23/world-news/right-wing-alternative-for-germany-scores-second-place-in-pivotal-election-conservative-set-to-to-be-next-chancellor/> in the Bundestag, and the party’s leader Friedrich Merz pledges that once he becomes chancellor, “My absolute priority will be to strengthen Europe as quickly as possible so that, step by step, we can really achieve independence from the USA.”
The legislature’s largest opposition party, the hard-right Alternative für Deutschland <nypost.com/2025/02/23/world-news/german-election-polls-open-with-economy-migration-and-far-right-strength-in-focus-for-voters/>, might not agree with Merz’s support for Ukraine — it’s often accused of favoring Russia — but it too wants Germany to have more military independence, and will pressure Merz to live up to his words.
President Trump has a plan to save Europe, and the results of Sunday’s election in Germany show it’s working.
The center-right Christian Democrats won the most seats <nypost.com/2025/02/23/world-news/right-wing-alternative-for-germany-scores-second-place-in-pivotal-election-conservative-set-to-to-be-next-chancellor/> in the Bundestag, and the party’s leader Friedrich Merz pledges that once he becomes chancellor, “My absolute priority will be to strengthen Europe as quickly as possible so that, step by step, we can really achieve independence from the USA.”
The legislature’s largest opposition party, the hard-right Alternative für Deutschland <nypost.com/2025/02/23/world-news/german-election-polls-open-with-economy-migration-and-far-right-strength-in-focus-for-voters/>, might not agree with Merz’s support for Ukraine — it’s often accused of favoring Russia — but it too wants Germany to have more military independence, and will pressure Merz to live up to his words.
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