Photo: DPAChancellor Angela Merkel is the clear frontrunner in general elections 10 days away, but a sleepy campaign is now heating up as other parties jostle to rule with her. Now all eyes are on the smaller parties. Would Germany keep its right-left "grand coalition" of the past four years - where the junior partner is the centre-left Social Democratic Party (SPD) of Merkel challenger Martin Schulz? Timo Lochocki of the German Marshall Fund think-tank said it is unclear whether Merkel will need just one or two smaller parties to govern. As small parties are poised to make a big difference, undecided voters could drastically change the picture, Lochocki said, meaning the election "is way more volatile than it seems currently".

Source: The Local September 14, 2017 07:07 UTC