The Germans elected a new Bundestag, or federal parliament, on Sunday. The Christian Democrats (CDU) led by Chancellor Angel Merkel were the strongest force, attaining 33.8 percent of the vote together with their sister party, the CSU. It is widely expected that they will now form a so-called black-yellow coalition with the liberal FDP, which won 14.6 percent of the vote. With only 23 percent of the vote the social democratic SPD, which governed the country in a grand coalition with the CDU for the last four years, will now go into the opposition.
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