The more than 60,000 polling stations around Germany opened at eight o’clock on Sunday morning.
The Social Democrats (SPD) have been in the best position in the opinion polls ahead of the election, and their prime ministerial candidate Olaf Scholz seems to be taking over the job from Merkel – but his leadership is scarce.
The heir to Merkel’s own party CDU / CSU, Armin Laschet, has been behind Scholz in the polls for a long time, but has recently recovered. This means that the outcome of the election on Sunday is the most unpredictable in many years.
May be invalid
When Laschet was about to cast his vote, he folded the ballot paper his wrong way. As a result, the two crosses he had set were captured by cameras during the voting, and the prime ministerial candidate’s vote can, according to the German newspaper image may be invalid.
Polling stations close at 6 pm. It is expected that the election result will be ready sometime during the night until Monday.
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