Votes are counted in the 2021 German elections. (Photo: EPA-Yonhap)
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Projected results from the German parliamentary election show the center-left social Democrats ahead of the conservative Christian Democrats by about 2 percent of the vote.
The general secretary of the social Democrats said that his party led by Finance Minister Olaf Scholz clearly had the mandate to govern.
Meanwhile, the Christian Democrat candidate for chancellor, Armin Laschet, backed by the outgoing Chancellor Angela Merkel, is also claiming he can build a governing coalition.
The BBC's Katya Adler reports from Berlin.
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Excitement ricocheted around the headquarters of Germany's social Democrats tonight.
Dismissed as political has-beens not long ago, the smell of election victory, even if a narrow one, now hung in the air.
Results though still need to be confirmed.
Confusingly perhaps, but because the vote is so tight, at a different party's headquarters, the conservative candidate backed by Angela Merkel, also claimed his right to try to form a government, although his party is looking at its worst election result since 1949.
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