The main candidates for the Chancellor participated in a live television discussion in Germany after the ballot closure, with the New Prognosis of result For the German elections to show the first of the Christian Union (CDU/CSU), the second is the far -right AfD and the third SPD.

Eight people participated in the panel, including Friedrich Mertz (CDU/CSU), Altf Saltz (SPD), Robert Habek (Praids) and Alice Weidel (far -right AfD)

Videl: We are ready to work with anyone

AfD chief Alice Videl said her party is “now accepted as a People’s Party”.

“We are ready to work with anyone,” he said, adding that the Germans want a change. “They really want a coalition between the CDU and the AfD – this is excluded, we have to accept it right now,” he added. But Widel also noted that the CDU should explain how it can apply its manifesto with the Social Democratic Party (SPD) and the Greens.

Mertz hopes to have only one coalition partner

Mertz received a question about the possibility of having two coalition partners.

Mertz said that “it is a clear victory” for his party and will ensure that his government will represent everyone.

He added that he must still “process” the way of forming a government and that he would ideally want a coalition partner and not two.

He then reiterated that he always said that he would not go to a coalition with the AfD, before he said we should expect the final results.

Friedrich Mertz, who will be Germany’s next chancellor, was asked by a presenter how quickly he thinks he can form a government. Initially he said that he believes that people should wait until the final election result is confirmed.

Mertz noted that it would be “difficult” to form a government, but added that this was something we “knew before the election”. The CDU/CSU leader said that “we have to process a timetable” to speak the parties to each other.

“I am sure we will have formed a government until Easter,” he said, which is in April. “Europe is waiting for a strong government very soon.”

Friedrich Mertz also told the Debate TV panel that his top priority is to “boost Europe as soon as possible so that we can be independent of the US in the defense. I would never think that I would have to say this on television, but after Donald Trump’s statements last week it is clear: this US government is not interested in Europe. “

Merz then brings to the fore how Ilon Musk “intervened” in the German elections, referring to “dramatic and shameful actions – similar to those we have heard from Moscow in the past.”

It is noted that Ilon Musk has enthusiastically supported the AfD.

Meanwhile, with regard to the Ukrainian, he said it was “too early to raise the issue of participating in German troops in the peacekeeping mission in Ukraine”.

Tothf Saltz: I will not be a SPD representative in a federal government under the leadership of the CDU

Speaking in the lively television debate, Olf Saltz said that the result is “bitter” for the Social Democrats.

Salts also said he would not participate in coalition negotiations with the conservative block if Friedrich Mertz invites the Social Democrats.

“I will not be a SPD spokesman in a federal government under the leadership of the CDU, nor will I negotiate,” Saltz said in the live television debate.

Head of CSU: “A government without the Greens would be a better government”

The Governor of the Bavarian State, Markus Söder, who is also the leader of the Christian Social Union (CSU), the CDU brother, said the CSU may not be able to keep his promise not to work with the Greens.

“Of course, I don’t want to tell the new Chancellor what to do, but a government without the Greens would be a better government,” he said.

“Let’s wait for the final results and then we’ll see,” he added.

FDP leader promises to give up politics if the party fails to get into parliament

Christian Lindner, leader of the Free Democratic Party (FDP), told the television debate that he would retire from politics if his party fails to get into the new parliament.

“If the FDP does not get into Bundestag, it is absolutely clear that I will leave politics as well,” said Lindner, who was finance minister until the collapse of the coalition government.

“If my political career is over tomorrow, I will leave with a single feeling: gratitude.”

It is not clear whether the FDP will concentrate greater than the 5% limit required to enter parliament.

Robert Habek: Germany must be united and make big decisions

Robert Habek, from the Greens, said that Germany should be “united” and make “big decisions”.

Habek added that the new Chancellor, Friedrich Mertz, must “take responsibility, because Germany and Europe are currently being drawn in different directions”.

Habek described his party’s electoral outcome as a “mixed result for us”.