ArmInfo. Several hundred people specially invited guests of the German embassy in Armenia yesterday got an option to monitor the elections in the Federal Republic of Germany in the Bundestag in the diplomatic representation building and to receive comments on what is happening from the first person of the embassy: German Ambassador Bernhard Matthias Kiesler.
The invitees were first suggested to "play ahead of time" - to share on their specially prepared forms their forecast of the forthcoming election results. Despite the fact that the official forecasts were slightly different from the final preliminary results, however, three guests - young people - in their guesses were pretty close to the results and received symbolic gifts from the Ambassador at the end of the evening.
The fact that the "Christian Democratic Union" Angela Merkel will lead the elections to the German parliament, perhaps no one doubted, but 33% of the votes were the worst result for the party since 1949. The Social Democratic Party of Germany headed by Martin Schultz received slightly more than 20%, but here it stated that it will not participate in the coalition and intends to withdraw to the opposition.
The far-right party, of Alternative for Germany (AdG), garnered by 13% of the votes, has become sensational, which advocates tightening of migration policy and rejection of the euro. In total, the Bundestag hosted six parties, including the Free Democratic Party (FDP), the Left and the Greens. Following the election results, a new government of Germany will be formed.