Young Germans leaned to the far ends of the political spectrum in Sunday’s election, with most backing Die Linke (The Left) and the far-right Alternative fur Deutschland (AfD), or Alternative for Germany.
While Germany’s Christian Democrat Union (CDU) party secured more than 28 percent of the vote overall, winning the federal election and defeating incumbent Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Social Democrats (SPD), few young Germans threw their support behind its leader, the 69-year-old Friedrich Merz.
