FDP leader Christian Lindner. There are still three months to go until Germans cast their votes in a national election on September 24th. The Free Democrats (FDP) came in at 10.5 percent, an improvement of 1.5 percent since the last poll. The first black-yellow coalition was formed in 1949, the very first year of modern German democracy. And in total there has been a black-yellow coalition in 34 of the 68 years since, with the most recent version of the alliance taking place between 2009 and 2013.

Source: The Local June 21, 2017 08:48 UTC