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Victory for the CDU/CSU with 28.52 percent of the votes at the expense of the SPD and a stellar growth of the AfD. This is the headline that best summarizes the results of the federal elections to the Bundestag held in Germany on February 23, 2025, following the breakup of the coalition of social democrats (SPD), liberals (FDP), and greens (Die Grünen/Bündnis 90) that had been leading the country since 2021. However, the conservatives, led by the Christian Democrat Friedrich Merz, are quite far from the 316 seats needed to govern alone, a situation that forces them to negotiate a coalition. After Merz ruled out an alliance with the AfD, the options are reduced to two, with a grand coalition (GroKo) between CDU/CSU and SPD emerging as the most plausible.