Photos of German Chancellor and Christian Democratic Union (CDU) candidate Angela Merkel are seen on the front pages of German newspapers on September 23, 2013 in Berlin, a day after general elections. Preliminary official results showed that Merkel’s CDU and its Bavarian sister party together won 41.5 percent of the vote — against 25.7 percent for the centre-left Social Democrats (SPD) and 8.4 percent for the SPD’s preferred allies the ecologist Greens.
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