Why Germany’s likely leader may struggle to form an effective government

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After Germany’s elections, who is the likely new chancellor, and why might he have a hard time forming a government that can pass legislation?  #germany

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00:00Germany saw one of its highest voter turnouts as 83.5% of eligible voters went to the polls

00:07in snap elections here on Sunday.

00:10The centre-right CDU-CSU union party brought in the most votes with 28.5% in a clear sign

00:17that the electorate want change.

00:19Germany's three-party coalition government of now caretaker chancellor Olaf Scholz, centre-left

00:25SPD, the Greens and business-focused FDP was routinely criticized for being too passive

00:32on issues such as migration and the economy, which some even blamed for the rise in support

00:38for centre-to-far-right parties.

00:40The CDU and their sister party here in Bavaria, the CSU, now have the task of forming a coalition

00:46government, either with the SPD as a minority partner or another three-way coalition that

00:51could make the CDU chairman, Friedrich Merz, decisive plans more difficult to pass.

00:57While Merz has rejected working with the far-right Alternative für Deutschland, or AFD, who

01:03came in second, nearly doubling their seats in the parliament, he has cooperated with

01:08them in the past, a move that some say may have cost his party some votes.

01:13Natalie Carney for CGTN, Munich.

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