BERLIN: German Chancellor Angela Merkel woke up Monday to a fourth term but now faces the double headache of an emboldened hard-right opposition party and thorny coalition talks ahead.
If the campaign was widely decried as boring, its outcome was a bombshell – a populist surge weakened Merkel’s conservatives as well as the center-left Social Democrats, handing both their worst results in decades.
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