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

TLDR finally says SPD correctly. Then he decides to go with "FPD".

German parties : "We'll have a government by christmas !" WW1 veterans : "Which christmas?"

What happened? SPD had a good night. CDU/CSU had an expected bad night but that was expected. Greens had a mixed night winning their best result ever but coming in a distant third. FDP had a good result. AfD had a bad night on the federal level and a horrible night on state level. The Left had a horrible night falling under the 5%-threshold but will stay in parliament due to winning 3 constituencies. SSW did win a seat (they are allowed to ignore the threshold cuz they represent minorities). Greens and FDP have already indicated talking to each other and want to form a coalition with either SPD or CDU/CSU. They will be kingmakers In other news the Free Voters were not able to get close to the 5%-threshold only winning 2.4%. The animal protection party got 1.5%. Conspiracy theorist DieBasis had a strong night on 1.4%. Die Partei, Volt and the Humanist party had a somewhat bad night on 1.0%, 0.4% and 0.1%. Other small parties with a somewhat "ok" voting share for German standarts: Team Todenhöfer (anti-establishment former CDU guy) on 0.5% Pirate Party on 0.4% ÖDP (conservative greens) on 0.2% NPD (more far-right than AfD) on 0.1% SSW on 0.1% Party for Health Research on an amazing 0.1% cuz their ONLY idea is giving more support to health research. I'm not joking that's their only idea XD and the christian fundamentalist Bündnis C on 0.1% as well.

6:44 Ah Germany doing the Home by Christmas move again

Can we just appreciate the fact that TLDR finally colored the cDU correctly

"The last party we'll talk about is the AfD" FDP: Am I a joke to you?

"We'll get it done by Christmas!" *Two years later "But we didn't say which one!" Did a promise of getting it over by Christmas ever actually work out?

Why no description of the FDP? And also the SSW, a Danish minority party, gained one seat.

Historically, when Europeans say: "It'll be done by Christmas" Spoilers: It lasts for years

I quite like that you finally use the correct colours for the respective parties!

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.

Shoutout to SSW for getting a seat!

Great video! Although it did show a slight gap in the diagram between Die Linke and SPD, you didn't mention the one seat won by SSW. They're especially interesting, since they represent the Danish and Frisian minorities in northern Germany and did not have to make it past the 5% threshold.

There is one more party in the German Bundestag the SSW got 1 seat as for them the 5% hurdle does not apply because there are a party for the Danish minority in Northern Germany.

it's also notable that with the left party (die linke) doing significantly worse than in the polls, the red-red-green coalition, favoured by a large part of the SPD and greens, is just barely not possible by about 0.7% of parliament seats

Can’t blame people for being that surprised about the results XD But honestly I am personally kinda glad that it turned out that fragmented, since this basically means it is an all for everyone not too small or controversial there and that the ruling parties now HAVE to make good decisions or they will bust in the next election.

"We'll be done by Christmas" when has that ever not worked out for Germany?

CDU got only 18.9% of the votes. 24.1% is CDU and CSU combined. You should either lable the 24.1% with "CDU/CSU", or show both partys separatley. Saying that the CDU won most votes in bavaria and that they are represented there by the CSU is wrong too. Those two partys have similar opinions and thus work together in the federal parliament as one faction, but they are two different partys. Same faction =/= same party, similar to the europan parliament.

First time in German history it is the 3rd and 4th biggest parties to first have talks and then THEY decide who THEY will make chancellor. Like back in the days when we had Prince Electors in the Holy Roman Empire. [Edit: corrected the term to "prince elector"]

In Germany we do not vote a Chancellor directly. It depends on the coalition that is being built after the election.

Since SPD doesn't want a coalition with CDU anymore and the Green Party wouldn't either, it's most likely, that SPD, Green and FDP will get together. This is also what most voters would prefer. But the FDP are the most capitalistic party in the running and against many of the changes, the Green Party finds most important, like getting out of coal asap. Personally, I hope they will get together and find a reasonable way to deal with climate change and modernization.

with lower birth rates and older population, the elderly population is the new power house of voters, the elderly population in UK is also responsible for UK's Brexit vote.

cdu in black thx! But here is a list of Complaints: - Germans don't elect their chancellor!!! (we elect only the Bundestag and the Bundestag has to find a canididate that can command a majority in the Bundestag. If no candidate can reach a majority the President (Frank Walter Steinmeier) can choose to either to allow for a Chancellor that only commands a Plurality or go towards voting in a full new Bundestag.) - its FDP not FPD! - for the first time in nearly 70 years the SSW will get a seat in the Bundestag that should be worth at least a sentence.

First thing first. 0:20: Germans did not and cannot elect the chancellor. Parliament does.

Let's go Traffic-light coalition.

CDU's result was still way too high considering all of their scandals. But 30% of their voters voted for them because "they always have"... so... what do you expect

Thank god the AfD fell off a bit.

It's going to be interesting. I personally hope the SPD makes it; Laschet is not only incompetent, but malevolently so

"It'll be done by Christmas" It's not the first time in history German politicians say that.

I think that to say there was a "winner" and a "loser" is a very angplocentric way to view elections. Firstly, unlike most algosphere countries, Germany has a multi-party system and not a two-party system. Secondly, unlike most anglosphere countries, Germany's elections distribute seats proportionally. So to distil it down to winners and losers is to miss so much important detail.

Always very informative. Thank you!

Never say it will be over or done by Christmas. That is just asking for trouble.

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.

It's not just the worst result for the CDU since 1990, it's their worst result ever.

Germany arranging a coalition: just a couple days The Netherlands half a year after elections: well we havent really talked yet..

Very good presentation for someone who cannot pronounce the letter "L" in any word that ends in the combination "LT" or ever pronounce the letter "R" in the middle or end of ANY WORD!

Iirc, the CSU and the CDU actually lost a similar percentage of the vote in their regions. It's just that the CSU has always been polling better in Bavaria than the CDU in the rest of Germany.

So... They hope to be done by Christmas? Oh, well. I think it's time to start digging some trenches, better safe than sorry

Excellent coverage.

We did not vote for s chancellor. German voters can not directly vote the government. We just vote for the parliament.

It is the most disappointing thing to see Sachsen voting AfD this much.

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.

Great and thank you for the agility

Excellent breakdown.

Are you going to make a Switzerland referendum and portuguese local elections video as well?

Our old generation was told CDU is bad, so they went from the very conservative CDU to the also very conservative SPD. It's quite a change; maybe in 4 years we'll have another shift right back to the CDU. I can barely contain my excitement about all the changes that are not to come!

Nice video. Well done. Keep us up to date on Germany in the future, please.

Yes this is the right Man.Congratulation.From Brazil .

YES! please do more videos on what is going on in Germany, as the biggest power in the EU, I think it really deserves more coverage surrounding who is going to take control, especially now considering how fragmented the vote was.

Watching this from Holland, I'm seeing a lot of similarities with our own election results. Maybe an analysis video into current trends among other nations is in order?

Why won‘t international media talk about the FDP and explain them? That‘s the second video I see totally ignoring them. They are the ones being crucial on creating a coalition. And for crying out loud, it‘s FDP not FPD.

Great video!

Imagine a shock if CDU and SPD form a coalition on their own again, and ef the Greens and FDP!

If the current projections are used, and SPD-Green-Left-SSVA forms a coalition, they’d still be short of a few seats from a majority. The SPD could do a grand coalition again, or a stop-light coalition.

A good summary, thank you for your good content.

Thanks

I think the best course of action for CDU/CSU is for Laschet to resign, he will only hurt the party.

“Could be formed in a matter of days.... or even months”.... Yeah looking at you Holland :-)

Please make a video about Icelandic parliamentary election 2021.

I'd love to see some content on the relationship between electoral systems and how they encourage/discourage coalitions.

Ew why is the afd so high

I think that just says that Germans liked center left policies, some of which Merkel embraced, which is why her conservative party moved left and took SPD votes. Bavaria is always and has always been at the right wing of the CDU/CSU. They are very conservative/catholic. And even if it weren't for Soder they would vote for their party.

Your party composition content is helpful. Have you ever considered doing a large-scale video on the composition across the entire EU?

This video had actually some details even German medias didn't cover. Nice!

It's hilarious that diversity in a parliamentary election is called "fragmentation." It's called representing a diverse society.

More fragmented means that people are more represented probably. More voices means that there's more opportunities for different groups of people to be heard. Sounds like a great win. Although it does make governing a little harder, I think it's worth it.

Where have I heard done by Christmas before and did it work out 👀

I only clicked on this to read all the German viewers taking this video apart in the comments.

Germany didn't elect a new chancellor

If you'd had told me that the SPD were to beat the CDU three months ago, I would not have believed you.

How is this summary more informative and comprehensive than any of the german TV coverage?

Forget the socials. Post that stuff here too!

My guess is we'll end up with what has been referred to as the "Ampelkoalition" (traffic light coalition): Red, green and yellow aka the SPD, Greens and FDP for the following reasons: 1: The FDP have already rejected taking part in a "Jamaikakoalition" ("jamaican coaltion: Union, Greens, FDP") in 2017 and odds are they won't neccessarily change their minds now. 2: There has been some bad blood between the FDP and Union during the campaign 3: Whilst the FDP might somewhat favour the more conservative economy of the Union, they also cannot ignore the fact that Armin Lachets approval ratings are god-awful compared to Scholz. Causing the more unpopular candidate to become chancellor is not neccessarily a good long-term strategy. Plus, people are a bit fed up with the Union to begin with. Like, 16 consecutive years really is enough.

I want a coalition of the pirate party, monster raving loony party, and the sun ripened warm tomato party (all real).

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

"He said he didn't like it... but he had to go along with it."

Interesting to see the results of our election from a different perspective 🤔

last time the german government said it'd be done by christmas it took 4 years.

I don't know why i'm watching this, i've never even set foot in Europe, and i don't know those politicians.. haha

saxony and thuringia being, saxony and thuringia 🤣

I don’t necessarily need to see a face next to the graphics tbh 😅

The viable options are CDU/Greens/FDP and SPD/Greens/FDP. A grand coalition is unlikely. This will be interesting.

Great video, but personally I don't like the new split screen, it's better if it's just animations

0:20 no one has elected any chancellor

and now, the real mess is starting. Now they start negociating and giving up all their promisses of the campaign ...

Oh wow you used the right colors for once!

the US: that's cool, we're buddies!

Hello from Germany. Already the video title made me like the video! 😂👍🏼

really funny to see english speakers describe german politics (as a german) :) but nonetheless: well done 👏

"... elected a new pariament, and more importantly a new chancellor ..." - No. "SPD [had] the lowest vote share in a national election ever " - No. "FPD" -No.

I don't get the "more importantly a new chancellor". Yeah, they represent the country and are an important figure in media. But the parliament is wayyy more important.

There was literally 1 party left with representation and they are going to certainly be part of any coalition and you just skip them?

Wish elections in my country were unpredictable

"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.

I wonder how Americans feel knowing you can vote for more than two political parties in other countries. I they technically have many more parties, but they effectively have only two parties.

I got a question: at 0:17, when you show that image of the vote being cast- what kind of flag is that on the right?

The little green spots on the map, presumably representing areas that the Greens won: are they large cities? Or did the Greens come second in lots of places? I'm trying to work out how they came third but have hardly any presence on the map.

It was a good night for the SPD, Greens, and FPD, and perhaps the SSVA.

Yes indeed our chancellor is more important than our parliament everyone knows that

He didn't even talk about the FDP.