German Chancellor Angela Merkel woke up on Monday to a fourth term but now faces the double headache of an emboldened hard-right opposition party and thorny coalition talks ahead. "A nightmare victory for Merkel," said Germany's best-selling daily Bild. News weekly Der Spiegel said Merkel had no one but herself to blame for the bruising she got from voters. One is the pro-business and liberal Free Democratic Party (FDP), which scored a 10.7-percent comeback after crashing out of parliament four years ago. The far-left Die Linke, traditionally an opposition party, took 9.2 percent of votes.

Source: The Local September 25, 2017 06:22 UTC