German elections 2025 LIVE: Germany votes to elect a new government

Now showing: German conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) leader Friedrich Merz casts his vote in Arnsberg.

Watch live as German voters go to the polls to elect a new parliament that will determine how the country is run for the next four years.

Four candidates are running to be Germany’s next leader: incumbent Chancellor Olaf Scholz, of the center-left Social Democrats; Friedrich Merz, the candidate of the mainstream conservative Christian Democratic Union party; current Vice Chancellor Robert Habeck, of the environmentalist Greens; and Alice Weidel, of the far-right, anti-immigration Alternative for Germany, or AfD. Follow latest updates here: https://bit.ly/4ieakjD

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