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Merkel wins fourth term but far-right on rise

Angela Merkel has secured a fourth term as Chancellor of Germany but faces a difficult task to form a government, with the far-right AfD now the third biggest party in the Bundestag and the SPD, her CDU party’s former coalition partners, vowing to go into opposition


BUNDESTAG SEATS
246 CDU-CSU Christian Democrats - Christian Social Union
153 SPD Social Democrats
94  AfD Alternative for Germany
80 FDP Free Democratic Party
69 Die Linke
67 Greens
Total 709 seats

SHARE OF VOTE
%
33
20.5
12.6
10.7
9.2
8.9
5.1
Other

Source: Federal Returning Officer
Picture: Associated Press