Germans went to the polls this weekend and how it was the biggest election turnout in a Generation.
More than 8 in 10 eligible voters cast a ballot.
Friedrich Merz, a conservative from the CDU party, is on track to be chancellor.
He said today it's time for traditional democratic parties to start getting things done.
The world won't wait for us.
It won't wait for long drawn out coalition negotiations.
We must be capable of acting again quickly so that we can do the right thing in Germany, so that we're.
The party that came in second place.
The Alternative for Germany, or AfD, is from the far right fringe.
So it is perhaps inevitable that America's unelected Vice President Elon Musk has spoken in support of the AfD, but so has America's elected Vice President J.D.
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