Germans vote in a national election on Sunday that looks too close to call, with the centre-left Social Democrats (SPD) mounting a strong challenge to retiring Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives.
era-changing eventA fractured electorate means that after the election, leading parties will sound each other out before embarking on more formalCampaigning in his home constituency of Aachen alongside Merkel, conservative candidateLaschet said on Saturday that a leftist alliance led by the SPD with the Greens and the hard-left Linke party would destabilise Europe.
Scholz, 63, has not ruled out a leftist alliance with The Left but said NATO membership was a red line for the SPD. The most likely coalition scenarios see either the SPD or the conservative CDU/CSU bloc - whoever comes first - forming an alliance with theScholz told supporters in his own constituency in Potsdam near Berlin that he was still hoping the SPD and Greens would secure a majority to rule alone without a third partner.
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