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Exit Poll Shows Conservative Lead in German Election
An exit poll Sunday showed Bavarian Premier Edmund Stoiber with a slight lead over Chancellor Gerhard Schröder's Social Democrats.
The first exit poll of voters taken in Germany on Sunday showed the conservative Christian Democratic Union and Christian Social Union leading Chancellor Gerhard Schröder's Social Democrats by 2 percentage points.
The first exit poll of German voters on Sunday showed a slight lead for the country’s conservative opposition and its candidate, Bavarian Premier Edmund Stoiber.
In its prognosis, the pollster Infratest-Dimap predicted the Christian Democratic Union and Christian Social Union would win 39 percent of the vote. The exit poll showed Chancellor Gerhard Schröder’s party, the Social Democrats, winning 37 percent, the Greens gaining 9.5 percent of the seats in Germany’s parliament and the liberal Free Democrats winning 7 percent.
Participation in Sunday’s election among Germany’s 61.2 million eligible voters was markedly lower this year than during the last election in 1998. According to Federal Elections Director Johann Hahlen, only 43 percent of the country’s voters had made it to their local polling stations by 2 p.m., just a few hours before they were set to close.
Can someone please give us an update......I just got in..
In a Die Welt popup, the leader of the CSU seems to say that if the Union gets the largest vote, that they have first chance to form a coalition and therefore a government.
Goppel: "against us none" governs
CSU Secretary-General Thomas Goppel excluded a government without the union after the first computer forecasts. CDU/CSU are clearly strongest parliamentary group. Gegen us governs none, said Goppel in a first statement. Red-green with this election result resigned. With whom the union will govern, must are waiting.