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German Election Results: What the Hell Just Happened? – TLDR News

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Yesterday the German people headed to the polls to select a new Parliament and a new Chancellor. A day on we have some result already, so in this video we’ll unpack what’s happening & who’s likely to take up the chancellory.

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  1. @RazyGamer

    March 3, 2024 at 11:41 pm

    Markus Söder is a good one and would pack a punch as the leading voice of Germany hopfully he wins the next time

  2. @johnharding9634

    March 3, 2024 at 11:41 pm

    A pluralistic democracy is far preferable to the toxic two party system that prevails in the USA, UK and Australia…it diminishes politics to the equivalent a football hooligan farce, where tribalism trivialises the importance of serious press coverage and an informed electorate.

  3. @johnharding9634

    March 3, 2024 at 11:41 pm

    Excellent coverage.

  4. @KnIf0rTITAN

    March 3, 2024 at 11:41 pm

    I notice you did not call die linke a far-left party despite how most German political violence comes from them but you did call the AfD a far-right party…. oversight or bias?

  5. @catmonarchist8920

    March 3, 2024 at 11:41 pm

    Are the Top-up seats based on the vote in each region or the national vote?

  6. @skorp5677

    March 3, 2024 at 11:41 pm

    In case you're watching this in the future:
    The greens and FDP discussed with whom they wanted to coalise before talking to the "big" players SPD and CDU. They settled on the SPD.

  7. @TheVaryox

    March 3, 2024 at 11:41 pm

    The election period truly was something else. Three candidates, each widely considered to be at the very least suboptimal, enter the arena. Baerbock and Laschet are considered to have good chances for victory, the greens even overtook the CDU at one point, no one takes Scholz seriously. It was joked a lot about the fact that the SPD even proposed a candidate for chancellor when polls put them at 12% at the time. Then Laschet screws up time after time, Baerbock gets bashed into the ground for (imo) basically nothing and suddenly, a month or two before election day, people seem to have forgotten all the scandals Scholz was a part of and his poll scores skyrocket without him doing absolutely anything. Sadly, during this whole campaign policy never really was in the spotlight like it usually is. Election day comes and those wild results came in.
    The first really exciting election I lived through, because so many options were on the table, and the very real possibility that with Merkel resigning, many procrastinated topics would get attention again.

  8. @thevoid5503

    March 3, 2024 at 11:41 pm

    I wouldn't call the AFD German nationalists but a bunch of Russland"verstehing" Quislings.

  9. @jayanthony3006

    March 3, 2024 at 11:41 pm

    This isn't at all surprising or new in a country where you have more than two parties. Quite normal for coalition talks to last while.

  10. @nederlandsfatsoenkanaal.4842

    March 3, 2024 at 11:41 pm

    Germany is such a backwards thinking country always falling behind everyone else

  11. @plerpplerp5599

    March 3, 2024 at 11:41 pm

    Germany has a coalition government so no one wins, actually.

  12. @catninja4950

    March 3, 2024 at 11:41 pm

    oof I though the east german commie party won

  13. @nicolasmarazuela1010

    March 3, 2024 at 11:41 pm

    Now that the coalition treaty is signed we know, that the FDP won also they are the jr. jr. partner.

  14. @mvmv-pn8zt

    March 3, 2024 at 11:41 pm

    Sorry, a remarkably informed rush thru the German election results…. Failing to identify the political leanings of all parties save one. I wonder where the tldr bias is?

  15. @miguelbonifacio9038

    March 3, 2024 at 11:41 pm

    AFD the future for Germany

  16. @ViewTube_Emperor_of_Mankind

    March 3, 2024 at 11:41 pm

    The SPD under Schröder made the most disguisting laws in german history to make rich people richer and increase suffering of poor and disabled people. They implemented what basically is slavery of people who lost their job forcing them to work for 1euro an hour.. but thats the whole government in the last 30 years. Germany is one corrupt garbage place where even gambling and racism is on the rise again.

  17. @kathirvelprabakran5842

    March 3, 2024 at 11:41 pm

    HALO GOOD EVENING
    MADAME ANGELA MARCKAL
    KP SAME CRIME DEVESHAN SAM TIME MY SITOK RANG 25 SERVICES VAT GROWAMNT TEX CEYAR DAM PLEASE

  18. @locutusvonborg2k3

    March 3, 2024 at 11:41 pm

    the problem is what to chose. i mean cdu is korrupt and as modern as the middle ages and all the others are just slightly better.

    sadly there is no option to chose none, that would clearly represent that the whole government is representing shit …

  19. @sanholo9494

    March 3, 2024 at 11:41 pm

    This result is the perfect example why we also should have a maximum election age, old people only vote for CDU or SPD. Are we in Armerica ? The CDU lost 1mil People to death i think thats sums it up pretty well

  20. @drizzle8309

    March 3, 2024 at 11:41 pm

    Being Belgian, the words 'coalition negotiations' made my eye twitch…

  21. @xDennNiex

    March 3, 2024 at 11:41 pm

    i would like to say cdu lost alot because of massiv corruption, underfunding important key elements of society and waste of taxmoney, but i am afraid its correct that they just did not like laschet that much. =)

  22. @teemum.9023

    March 3, 2024 at 11:41 pm

    You do the voting. They do the talking?

  23. @lemmiix7758

    March 3, 2024 at 11:41 pm

    I, a german, watching a non-german video to know what the hell happened

  24. @shm-3kera88

    March 3, 2024 at 11:41 pm

    soon we will have elections too: Bulgaria elections 2021-2022 idk

  25. @ShirosTamagotchi

    March 3, 2024 at 11:41 pm

    SchOlz, not SchUlz

    also Kudos, you explained it well

  26. @lelsims3613

    March 3, 2024 at 11:41 pm

    Are there any foreigners here or just Germans? lol

  27. @93Litze

    March 3, 2024 at 11:41 pm

    CDU is not christian democrats its the Corrupt Dictators, they changed the name years ago

  28. @davinderc

    March 3, 2024 at 11:41 pm

    Kind of difficult to take you seriously when you make simple mistakes naming the parties and then I see in the comments section that this has been an ongoing problem…

  29. @linux1324

    March 3, 2024 at 11:41 pm

    English Video about Germany:

    Germans: Mooin

  30. @ska187

    March 3, 2024 at 11:41 pm

    I love the colors of the map even though I don’t know much about German politics.

  31. @Erik24296

    March 3, 2024 at 11:41 pm

    This is the first video I ever watched where an Englishman talks about German politics. Nice that there's some interest in that, even though I can only imagine most of the world getting level 5 seizures trying to understand our system of government.

  32. @claudiusflavius2493

    March 3, 2024 at 11:41 pm

    "more importantly, a new chancellor"
    That's your american perspective. The parliament is the more important, the chancellor really just represents the government which works through the parliament. As I see it, most Germans vote for parties not for (unremarkable) individuals.

  33. @ke4sy

    March 3, 2024 at 11:41 pm

    Söder never actually challenged Laschet for the CDU leadership. Media brought Söder up and non-electial votings showed that Söder would be preferred by more than 60% of the population the other 40% was split between Laschet, März and another guy whose name I forgot. In the end there was the discussion if Söder might actually go for challenging Laschet, but he decided on his own to stay leading CSU in Bavaria. He sort of challenged Laschet, but not officially.

  34. @victorconway444

    March 3, 2024 at 11:41 pm

    Well good to see the Totally-Not-The-Nazis party is finally in decline. Hope it stays that way, assuming Saxony one day comes to its senses.

  35. @JoFoh

    March 3, 2024 at 11:41 pm

    Where's the FDP part?

  36. @protoretro1290

    March 3, 2024 at 11:41 pm

    Why can't the SPD and CDU join forces?

    That'd give them a clear majority.

  37. @COPROO

    March 3, 2024 at 11:41 pm

    First chart is wrong, the FDP has only increased by 12 seats in the Bundestag. That's about 1.5%.

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1 – https://meduza.io/amp/en/feature/2026/09/10/putin-dismisses-rumors-of-another-mobilization-as-nonsense-but-can-russia-keep-fighting-without-another-round-of-forced-recruitment
2 – https://www.euronews.com/2026/09/19/russians-leave-before-election-ends-fearing-mobilisation-to-follow
3 – https://www.belfercenter.org/research-analysis/will-putin-resume-mobilization-if-so-when-and-why
4 – https://understandingwar.org/research/russia-ukraine/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-february-18-2026/
5 – https://meduza.io/en/feature/2026/04/07/russia-has-shifted-to-a-year-round-conscription-system-here-s-what-that-means-for-the-country-s-young-men
6 – https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/14/russia-ukraine-putin-recruiters-mobilisation
7 – https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/what-we-know-about-north-korean-forces-joining-russias-war-against-ukraine-2026-08-06/
8 – https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/eur46/1361/2026/en/ 
9 – https://unn.ua/en/amp/russia-raised-payments-to-millions-but-the-number-of-contract-soldiers-has-decreased
10 – https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/28/russia-losing-6000-more-troops-than-it-can-recruit-each-month-in-ukraine-says-west 
11 – https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2026/07/21/should-russia-brace-for-a-new-mobilization-a93256 
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15 – https://www.belfercenter.org/research-analysis/will-putin-resume-mobilization-if-so-when-and-why
16 – https://understandingwar.org/research/russia-ukraine/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-september-12-2026/
17 – https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2026/09/21/as-fears-of-post-election-mobilization-swirl-russian-activists-prepare-for-the-worst-a93761
18 – https://english.elpais.com/international/2026-09-13/russia-uses-arrests-and-coercion-to-send-more-recruits-to-the-front-in-ukraine.html
19 – https://understandingwar.org/research/russia-ukraine/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-september-29-2025/

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https://www.csis.org/analysis/tracking-arrival-russias-wagner-group-mali
https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/russias-wagner-mercenary-group-says-it-is-leaving-mali-after-mission-2025-06-06/
https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/malis-army-claims-capture-rebel-stronghold-kidal-2023-11-14/
https://www.securitycouncilreport.org/monthly-forecast/2026-07/west-africa-and-the-sahel-17.php
https://www.criticalthreats.org/analysis/fall-of-northern-mali-jnim-fla-offensive-russia-issp-camara
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLCG-_I-DYk
https://edition.cnn.com/2026/09/12/africa/ukraine-russia-drones-mali-libya-intl
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/28/world/europe/ukraine-air-defense-deal-qatar-saudi-arabia.html
https://www.reuters.com/world/ukraine-denies-involvement-mali-attack-says-cutting-ties-short-sighted-2024-08-05/
https://adf-magazine.com/2023/12/as-critics-warn-of-blood-gold-mali-signs-deal-with-russia-to-open-refinery/
https://www.kyivpost.com/post/29106
https://africa.businessinsider.com/local/lifestyle/north-african-country-with-6-russian-military-bases-denies-allowing-ukraine-to-use/tkltznz=
https://english.nv.ua/nation/ukraine-s-hur-hits-russian-base-in-syria-after-putin-assad-meeting-50439035.html
https://euromaidanpress.com/2026/09/13/ukrainian-troops-are-now-operating-across-africa/

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Ursula von der Leyen State of the Union speech, proposing associate membership for Canada:
https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/speech_26_1868 

Macron’s two-tier proposal:
https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2022/05/11/what-do-we-know-about-macron-s-idea-for-a-two-tier-europe 

Merz proposes associate membership for Ukraine:
https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2026/05/21/merz-proposes-associate-eu-membership-for-ukraine-with-mutual-assistance 

Albania & Serbia back gradual integration:
https://www.euronews.com/2026/03/11/serbia-and-albania-issue-joint-text-on-eu-accession-without-veto 

Ukraine opposes gradual integration/membership-lite:
https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/europe-cannot-afford-to-leave-ukraine-trapped-in-the-geopolitical-grey-zone/ 

EU member reservations about Canada associate membership:
https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-capitals-mark-carney-ursula-von-der-leyen-associate-membership-canada/ 
https://www.ft.com/content/7b1a00f1-6842-4f5e-ace4-d6a57e98b21e 

EU is already ad hoc:
https://www.euractiv.com/news/rapporteur-the-rise-of-ad-hoc-europe/

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