A week after her election victory, Chancellor Angela Merkel is nowhere nearer a coalition government, with the Social-Democrats facing strong internal opposition and the Greens having lost their leadership.
Merkel needs a partner to form a majority government - either the Social-Democrats or the smaller Greens - because her "super result" gave her 311 seats out of 630 in the Bundestag, just short of a majority.
But following the fate of her last junior partner - the liberal Free D...
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