The result looked to set Europe's largest economy on a path toward protracted negotiations to create a new government, with Merkel serving as a caretaker until a successor is sworn in. The most likely path to power for both leading contenders would be a three-party governing coalition with two opposition parties that have historically been ideological rivals — the environmentalist Greens and the business-friendly Free Democrats.
Only one of the three contenders to follow Merkel, who declined to run for a fifth term, appeared pleased after the result on Sunday: the Social Democrats' Olaf Scholz, the departing vice chancellor and finance minister who helped his party recover from a years-long downturn.
The expected outcomes, according to Scholz, are “a very clear mandate to guarantee that we put together a decent, pragmatic government for Germany right now.”
A partial count based on 267 of the 299 constituencies found the Social Democrats in the lead with 25.7 per cent of the vote to the Union bloc's 24.6 per cent. In previous German national elections, no victorious party had received less than 31% of the vote.
According to the partial count, the Greens, who ran for the chancellery for the first time with co-leader Annalena Baerbock, were in third place with 14.1 per cent of the vote, while the pro-business Free Democrats received 11.5 per cent.
Armin Laschet, the governor of North Rhine-Westphalia who outmanoeuvred a more popular candidate to win Merkel's Union bloc candidacy, had failed to energize the party's base and had made a number of mistakes.
Saint Laurent, the French luxury brand, will discontinue using fur in its collections beginning next year, its parent firm Kering announced Friday.
Kering said in a statement that another of its houses, Italian menswear label Brioni, will also discontinue the usage of natural fur, making the luxury conglomerate, which includes Gucci, Alexander McQueen, Balenciaga, and Bottega Veneta, entirely fur-free.
Francois-Henri Pinault, CEO of Kering, stated that "becoming completely fur-free is the correct thing to do." We do it for the sake of ethics and modernity.”
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