… 20.5 percent of the national party list vote, a drop of 5.2 percent from its vote in 2013 and its lowest national vote … Unity Party (SED) of the German Democratic Republic, won 9.2 percent of the party list vote, an increase of 0.6 percent. … July was caused, at least in part, by the widely-viewed photos of Laschet laughing and chatting while President …