Daily Memo: German Election Results

A two-party centrist coalition is possible despite the AfD's historic result.

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Center holds. Germany’s center-right Christian Democratic Union/Christian Social Union (CDU/CSU) finished first in federal elections on Sunday, securing 28.5 percent of the vote, according to preliminary results. The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) came in second with 20.8 percent, its best result ever, and was the largest party in all five former East German states. […]

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Geopolitical Futures (GPF) was founded in 2015 by George Friedman, international strategist and author of The Storm Before the Calm and The Next 100 Years. GPF is non-ideological, analyzes the world and forecasts the future using geopolitics: political, economic, military and geographic dimensions at the foundation of a nation.

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