Germany: Elections Over, Uncertainty Remains

... Despite major losses, the Christian Democratic Union and their Bavarian partners led by Angela Merkel emerged as formal winners, although the real winners are the AfD, which... ... like its leaders predicted, the Alternative will now be the third-largest faction in Germany, and the largest among the established small parties. In response to its political... ... 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...