… 2018 and wouldn’t seek reelection as chancellor in 2021. The 2018 setbacks were preceded by significant losses … since 1949, the first election in the post-World War II Federal Republic. The vote for the Social Democratic Party … revealed in the surveys. In the first round, Merz got 385 votes, Laschet 380 and Röttgen 224. In the second round, with …