
(ANSA) - BERLINO, 23 FEB - Friedrich Merz's Cdu/Csu Union wins Germany's elections with 29 percent, according to the first exit poll by public TV Ard. Second is the ultra-right Afd with 19.5 percent, the first time in the history of the Federal Republic. They are followed by the Spd at 16%, the Greens at 13.5%, and the Linke at 8.5%. In danger of not entering the Bundestag are the Fdp Liberals with 4.9 percent and Bsw with 4.7 percent. The bar threshold is 5 percent. Alice Weidel, the candidate for chancellor of the ultra-right Alternative fuer Deutschland (Afd) exults after exit poll data in Germany and speaks of "a historic result: we doubled our votes." (ANSA).