Germany: Elections Over, Uncertainty Remains

... 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 — between ... ... 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 ...