Germany: Elections Over, Uncertainty Remains

... elections, stressing that they had “outlived themselves” and no longer represented the real interests of the German people. The CDU/CSU and the SDP failed to win over undecided voters (and there was an unusually high number of such voters before the elections ... ... the two popular parties turned out to be rather ineffectual, as did the efforts of the two candidates for chancellorship — Angela Merkel and Martin Schultz — and the billboards and personal campaigning. These parties and their leaders are largely ...