Subscribe today ArrowRight With all 299 districts reporting, the center-right conservatives that have dominated Germany's postwar leadership had just 24percent of the vote, according to preliminary numbers.... Taking to the stage, Scholz said the party would wait for the final result, “ and then we will get to work.” “ This will be a long election night, ” he said.... Defense Minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, who Merkel tried to anoint as her successor, lost her district of Saarbrücken....