Just a few votes shy of an absolute majority was the best conceivable result Angela Merkel could have had. It was an electoral triumph of the kind that are extremely rare in German politics. She has achieved all her electoral goals. She will stay in power – of that there was really never any doubt. But she also secured her other goal – to make it impossible for the three parties of the left to form a coalition against her during the next parliamentary term.
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