German election 2025 live news: Voting starts as right-wing CDU leads race

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Some 52 million Germans are eligible to vote in a snap election to decide who will govern the eurozone’s largest economy.
The conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) leads the polls survey with 30 percent, the far-right Alternative Fur Deutschland (AfD) is slated to win 20 percent, while the incumbent Social Democratic Party (SPD) stands in third place with 15 percent.