German Elections: The Day After

BERLIN, GERMANY - SEPTEMBER 23: Katrin Goering-Eckardt, co-lead candidate of the German Green Party (Buendnis 90/Die Gruenen), talks to the media on September 23, 2013 in Berlin, Germany. The German Christian Democrats (CDU) finished with approximately 42% of the vote, which puts the party just shy of a majority of seats in the Bundestag. The CDU will now face the task of finding a coalition partner, which is complicated by the failure of its current partner, the German Free Democrats (FDP), to stay above the 5% necessary to retain its Bundestag seats, and many analysts favour a grand coalition between the CDU and the SPD. (Photo by Alexander Hassenstein/Getty Images)