Germans vote in national polls, Friedrich Merz unlikely to attain majority

For the first time in my life, I was unable to vote in a national election,

wrote Karl Doemens, the United States correspondent for the German Newsrooms Network in Washington

Expat Germans apparently don’t matter in politics,

he concluded

It would make voting abroad incredibly easier if it could be carried out via embassies,

said Fabian Schmidt, a political economist living in Brussels and German citizen who applied for, but did not receive, an absentee ballot in time

Many German interest groups in Brussels are considering legal action,

he told POLITICO