Merkel’s Bloc Regroups After ‘Nightmare Victory’ in Germany
- Populist AfD enters Bundestag; leader Petry shuns party caucus
- Talks on three-way coalition with Greens, FDP to be ‘prickly’
Merkel Aims to Build Stable, Good German Government
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Angela Merkel’s political bloc is starting to draw lessons from its electoral losses to the Alternative for Germany party as pressure mounts for the chancellor to win back voters lost to the populist right.
Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union-led bloc met in Berlin on Monday in the wake of its defeat of the Social Democratic Party while falling to the worst result since 1949. “The chancellor’s nightmare victory” was the verdict of Germany’s best-selling Bild newspaper.