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The world out there isn’t waiting for us, and it isn’t waiting for long-drawn-out coalition talks and negotiations,
he told cheering supporters
I have no illusions at all about what is happening from America,
he told supportersI am aware of the responsibility,
Mr Merz said
Now we have the far-right - the AfD - and the fact they got such a good election result is something we cannot accept and I will never accept,
Mr Scholz saidIn time, we will get there,
said a smiling Stephan Moller, a senior figure and elected official in the Thuringia branchWe have seen the center is weakened overall, and everyone should look at themselves and ask whether they didn't contribute to that,
he saidGermany has learned the hard way over the last three years that such coalitions are anything but stable and severely limit the government's ability to act,
said Woll
The people of Germany got tired of the no common sense agenda, especially on energy and immigration,
said Trump, whose surrogates have hounded Scholz's outgoing administrationThese are difficult starting conditions for a new German government, which is facing Herculean tasks in domestic and foreign policy,
said Cornelia Woll of the Hertie School Berlin.jpg)
But now we will talk to each other,
Merz said, striking a far more conciliatory tone.jpg)
We are now the political center and we have left the fringes behind us,
said Tino ChrupallaYou want the opposite of what we want, so there will be no cooperation,
Mr Merz addedIt won't be able to implement it with left-wing parties,
she saidWe have fundamentally different views, for example on foreign policy, on security policy, in many other areas, regarding Europe, the euro, Nato,
he saidWe- the @CDU and the @CSU have won this federal election. Thank you for the trust you have placed in us and in me. And in this context I would like to say a word of respect for our political competitors. We will now quickly fulfill our government mandate, because the world out there is not waiting for us. Nor is it waiting for long coalition talks and negotiations. We must now quickly become capable of action again,
Merz stated in a post on X, following his victory in the elections
After Donald Trump's statements in the last week it is clear that the Americans are largely indifferent to the fate of Europe,
Merz said in a post-election TV debate
Bayern is a wonderful role model for migration and integration. More than half of our youth players have a migration background,
Hoeness told Kicker
The stakes could not be higher
argued political analyst and author Michael Broening, who serves on the SPD's Basic Values commission
One thing is clear: the Union has won the election,
Carsten Linnemann, the general secretary of Merz’s Christian Democratic Union party
We have become the second strongest force,
said AfD's candidate for chancellor, Alice Weidel