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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Deborah Cole in Berlin

German voters head to polls facing world of change as far right waits in the wings

CDU leader Friedrich Merz, centre, clasping his hands, at an election rally in a stadium full of people in Oberhausen, Germany, on Friday.
CDU leader Friedrich Merz, centre, at an election rally in Oberhausen, Germany, on Friday. Photograph: Ronald Wittek/EPA

German voters go to the polls today but it is a different world from when the campaign began only a few weeks ago.

Nearly 60 million ­people are choosing a government that will have to grapple with the breakdown of the transatlantic alliance under Donald Trump and new threats to European security just as the country’s vaunted economic model is hitting the skids.

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