German Chancellor Angela Merkel has recently won the just concluded election in Germany, beating her coalition partner, the social democratic SPD Martin Schulz.
This will be Merkel’s fourth term as the chancellor of Germany but in this election, her traditionalist CDU/CSU bloc who remains the largest in the parliament has seen its worst result in almost 70 years.
The federal elections saw Merkel’s Centre CDU/CSU win 33% of the vote making it the largest party in the Bundestag with an estimated 218 seats.
The Anti-immigration AfD party has won its first seats and has made a historic breakthrough, as the first overtly nationalist party to sit in the Bundestag in 60 years.
