Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives triumphed in Germany's election Sunday, but finished just short of an absolute majority. Final results give Ms. Merkel's Christian Democrats 41.5 percent of the vote, finishing only five seats short of an absolute majority in the lower house. She likely will have to seek a grand coalition with the Social Democrats, who won about 26 percent of the vote. Ms. Merkel's preferred liberal partners, the Free Democrats, won only 4.8 percent of ...
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