Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives won a stunning victory in Sunday's general election, sharply increasing their share of the vote by 7.7 points to 41.5 percent and putting her on track for a third term, IPN reports.
According to the Romanian agency Mediafax, the Free Democratic Party (FDP) crashed out of parliament. Their share of the vote collapsed to 4.8 percent, according to preliminary final results.
The center-left Social Democratic Party (SPD), with which Merkel is to discuss the formation of a coalition, scored 25.7% of the vote.
The Greens lost 2.3% of the poll, gaining 8.3%, the radical-left Die Linke lost 3.3% winning 8.6%, while the new anti-Euro movement Alternative für Deutschland (AfD), which was created in spring, won 4.7%, below the five percent level needed for parliamentary representation.
The voter turnout was 71.5%, slightly higher than the 70.8% turnout in 2009.
Press attaché of the German Embassy in Chisinau Polina Ojog has told IPN that Germany has a developed correspondence voting system. That’s why there were established no poling places abroad.
Angela Merkel is known as an active supporter of Moldova’s European integration efforts.
