19:17⇢Speed-Dating Finals Before Vote
⌨The newspapers extensively cover the final day before the Bundestagswahl, with multiple sources reporting on a "speed-dating" format TV debate featuring Scholz, Habeck, and Weidel, notably without Merz (FR, merkur.de). AfD's campaign concludes with strong rhetoric, as Weidel predicts Merz government's rapid collapse (Junge Freiheit, Berliner Zeitung). Zeit profiles potential first-time AfD voters, while Palestinian detainees released in Hamas deal report mistreatment in Israeli prisons (Spiegel).