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Provisional results confirmed that mainstream conservatives led by Friedrich Merz won Germany's national election , while far-right party AfD surged to become the nation's second-largest.

Supporters of the far-right Alternative for Germany party, or AfD, at a rally last month. The party’s popularity has slipped since the last elections, but the AfD looks likely to stay in Parliament.

The AfD became the first party considered by many to be far-right to come out victorious in a state election in Germany since the World War II, when it won Brandenburg in September.

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People walk past a truck with an election campaign poster featuring Friedrich Merz, leader of conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU), in Oberhausen, Germany, on Feb. 21.

The mood at the far right’s election party in Berlin was ecstatic as the exit polls first flashed onto the screens, with people cheering and waving Germany flags.