Brussels 09.06. 2024 Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Social Democrats are finding himself at third place, according to exit polls in Germany’s European vote.

The Christian Democrat CDU and CSU are on course to receive up to 30% of the vote and the far-right AfD are set to get 16-16.5%, with the SPD far behind on 14%.

Scholz’s Green coalition allies are set to come in fourth with around 12%, while the liberal FDP is down at 5%, the exit polls say.

In 2019, the AfD got 11% of the votes and SPD 15.8%. The Greens had obtained 20.5%.