Joining her at the glass-domed Reichstag parliament building for the first time were the 93 deputies of the Alternative for Germany (AfD), a party branded far-right by many German media outlets and officials. A total of five million voters turned their backs on the governing parties, and 1.5 million of them voted for the AfD. The grouping has been dubbed a Jamaica coalition for the parties’ colours matching the Caribbean nation’s flag. “There are many booby traps among the issues for a possible Jamaica coalition,” political scientist Juergen Falter of the University of Mainz in western Germany told Bild. “The coalition talks will be extremely thorny because the small parties will have a bigger say and Jamaica is the only option,” Falter said.

Source: Dhaka Tribune September 26, 2017 12:11 UTC