By Anadolu staff
BERLIN (AA) - Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s center left-liberal coalition suffered major losses in European Parliament elections on Sunday, while the far-right Alternative for Germany’s (AfD) votes were at a record high.
Projections by public broadcaster ARD showed Chancellor Scholz’s Social Democratic Party (SPD) could only manage to win 14% of the vote, down 1.8 percentage points from the last election.
Scholz’s coalition partner the Greens crashed to 12%, sharply down from the 20.5% of the vote it scored five years ago.
The coalition’s junior partner, the liberal Free Democrats (FDP), was projected to win 5%, with a slight fall of 0.4%.
The main opposition Christian Democrats (CDU/CSU) won the biggest share of the vote with 29.6%, managing to increase their vote modestly from 28.9%.
The anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany (AfD) was projected to finish second with a record 16.4% of the vote, up from 11 in the last election.