Interim President Ilie Bolojan sent a congratulation message to the leader of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU), Friedrich Merz, for winning the parliamentary elections.

„Congratulations to @_FriedrichMerz & our friends from the CDU/CSU for winning the parliamentary elections in Germany. I look forward to working together to strengthen our bilateral relations & the continent’s security in these troubled times,” Bolojan wrote on X.

Friedrich Merz’s conservatives won the legislative elections in Germany on Sunday, followed by the far-right party AfD, which achieved its best result in history, according to exit polls conducted by public television, AFP reports.

The conservatives from the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and its Bavarian wing, the Christian Social Union (CSU), received between 28.5% and 29% according to the polls broadcast by public TV stations ARD and ZDF, while the Alternative for Germany (AfD) obtained 19.5% to 20%, an unprecedented result for a far-right party in a post-war federal election.

AGERPRES