Germany has swung to the Right - leaving a power vacuum in Europe

swung dramatically to the Right in yesterday’s , with the Christian (CDU) – still mainstream centre-Right but now more conservative than they were in ’s day – coming first with just under 29 per cent of the vote (according to exit polls and early results).

The radical-Right insurgents, Alternative for Germany (AfD), doubled their share of the vote to come a clear second with over 20 per cent.

The ruling Social Democrats (the SPD, Germany’s equivalent of our Party) at the head of a rudderless centre-Left coalition for four years – and in power for 23 of the past 27 years – have been ignominiously turfed out, winning only 16 per cent of the vote, down ten percentage points and their worst result since the federal republic emerged from the ashes of the .

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