“We respect the expression of the will of the German people and are far from trying to express our own political preferences and even more so to interfere in the course of the election campaign in Germany,” TASS quoted him as saying.

Nechaev noted that the Russian side is ready to work with the FRG government "regardless of its party configuration."

Earlier, voting in the elections to the Bundestag ended in Germany.

The first exit poll data, commissioned by the ZDF, show that the Social Democratic Party of Germany is winning the parliamentary elections in Germany, gaining 26% of the vote.

At the same time, the ARD exit poll data show that social democrats and conservatives receive an equal number of votes - 25% each.