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Exit polls: German conservatives lead as support for Scholz slumps
Exit polls on Sunday evening indicated that the government’s “traffic light” coalition underperformed, while the far-right AfD party made gains despite scandals.
Early projections of European election results in Germany indicate a poor performance of the country’s governing coalition and a significant rise in support for its centrist and right-wing political opposition.
Germany’s conservative main opposition, the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and the Christian Social Union (CSU) — part of the EPP group in the European Parliament — are predicted to comfortably finish in first place with 29.5% of the vote.
Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s “traffic light coalition” has slumped, with Scholz’s SPD party gaining only 14%, a decrease from the 15.9% it reached in 2019.
For the Greens, who make up the second-biggest party in the coalition, support is expected to drop dramatically from 20.5% in 2019 to just 12%, estimates by ARD and ZDF indicate. The FDP is predicted to reach just 5%.
The largest member state in Europe’s 27-nation bloc, Germany holds 96 seats in the European Parliament.
AfD survives series of scandals
Meanwhile, AfD is expected to increase its share of the vote to over 16%, compared to 11% in 2019.
Although the result is lower than predicted at the start of the year, AfD’s rise in support comes despite facing numerous scandals in the run-up to the elections.
Voters remain apparently undeterred from voting for the far-right party, which has been accused in major scandals throughout the year, ranging from espionage involving Russia and China and plans to deport naturalised German citizens to its leaders mimicking Nazi-era slogans during their campaign marches.
In May, the AfD were expelled from the Identity and Democracy (ID) group in the European Parliament.
Meanwhile, German newcomer the Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance (BSW) will take 6% of the vote, exit polls predict.
Although the party was founded just this January, the BSW was founded by prominent former Die Linke politician Sahra Wagenknecht.
The conservative-left party combines a more economic policy with a tough stance on migration and opposition to sending weapons to Ukraine. Prior to the elections, analysts expected the BSW to even go as far as to take away votes from AfD.
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Police Identify Suspect in Mass Shooting in Canada
At least eight people were killed in a mass shooting in British Columbia in Canada. Local authorities said the shooter was an 18-year-old whose motive had not been identified.
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“The deceased victims from the school include an adult female educator, three female students, and two male students between the ages of 13 and 17.” “This morning, parents, grandparents, sisters, brothers in Tumbler Ridge will wake up without someone they love. The nation mourns with you. Canada stands by you.” “Upon arrival, there was active gunfire, and as officers approached the school, rounds were fired in their direction. Officers entered the school to locate the threat. Within minutes an individual confirmed to be the shooter was located deceased with what appeared to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound.”
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Iranian brutality: Nobel laureate fighting for life after barbaric assault at notorious prison
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The Norwegian Nobel Committee is calling on Iran to stop its physical abuse and life-threatening treatment of Nobel peace laureate Narges Mohammadi, who has been imprisoned since December.
The committee said it had received “credible reports” of “life-threatening mistreatment” of Mohammadi, an activist arrested by plain-clothes agents while peacefully attending the funeral of the late human rights lawyer and advocate Khosrow Alikordi.
Mohammadi has been beaten by wooden sticks and batons and dragged across the ground by her hair, tearing sections of her scalp and causing open wounds, the committee said.
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Ali and Kiana Rahmani, children of Narges Mohammadi, an imprisoned Iranian human rights activist, attend the Nobel Peace Prize 2023 award ceremony, where they accept the award on behalf of their mother at Oslo City Hall, Norway on Dec. 10, 2023. (NTB/Javad Parsa via REUTERS )
Furthermore, she was repeatedly kicked in the genitals and pelvic region, leaving her unable to sit or move without severe pain and raising serious concerns of bone fracture, it said.
“The Committee is horrified by these acts, and reiterates that Ms. Mohammadi’s imprisonment is arbitrary and unjust,” committee Chair Jorgen Watne Frydnes said in a statement. “Her only ‘offence’ is the peaceful exercise of her fundamental rights – freedom of expression, association and assembly – in defence (sic) of women’s equality and human dignity.”
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Ali Rahmani, son of Narges Mohammadi, an imprisoned Iranian human rights activist, who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize 2023, speaks after receiving the award on behalf of his mother at Oslo City Hall, Norway. (NTB/Fredrik Varfjell via REUTERS)
An Iranian prosecutor at the time of the arrest told reporters that Mohammadi made provocative remarks at the memorial ceremony in the northeastern city of Mashhad and encouraged those present “to chant norm‑breaking slogans” and “disturb the peace,” Reuters reported.
Mohammadi, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2023, has spent much of the last two decades in Iran’s infamous Evin prison.
The committee is calling on Tehran to release Mohammadi and guarantee her access to medical care.
The state tax building burned during Iran’s protests, on a street in Tehran, Iran, Jan. 19, 2026. (Majid Asgaripour/WANA (West Asia News Agency) via Reuters)
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“Mohammadi’s ordeal is yet another grim example of the brutal repression that has followed the mass protests in Iran, where countless women and men have risked their lives to demand freedom, equality and basic human rights,” it said.
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