| Friedrich Merz’s Christian Democratic Union has won a plurality in the Bundestag, preliminary exit polls released by public broadcasters ARD and ZDF suggested Sunday, while the anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany party, boosted this month by Vice President JD Vance and tech billionaire Elon Musk, will finish second. Merz will now be tasked with forming a coalition; the mainstream parties have said they will block the AfD. | 
