Germany: Elections Over, Uncertainty Remains

... — 5.1 per cent [1] . For the first time in the history of unified Germany, the Bundestag will include seven parties and six factions, with a total of 709 seats. 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 almost tripled its results from 2013 (4.7 per cent), and the Free Democratic Party, which returned to the lower house of the federal parliament with surprisingly high results (compared to 4.9 per cent in 2013). Just like its leaders predicted,...