___11 p.m.German internet users are flocking to Twitter to express their opposition to the surging nationalist party AfD. Merkel’s current coalition partners, the center-left Social Democrats, said after Sunday’s election that they won’t join the next government. Projections show Merkel’s conservative Union bloc finishing first in Sunday’s election but well short of its election results in 2013. The Social Democrats were in second place with about 21 percent and Merkel’s conservative bloc with about 33.5 percent. That’s helped keep her conservative bloc well atop the polls ahead of Sunday’s election over the center-left Social Democrats of challenger Martin Schulz.

Source: Washington Post September 25, 2017 00:22 UTC