German Elections See Merkel and The CDU Victorious

Germans went to the polls on Sunday and mostly voted to keep the current leaders in control.

Angela Merkel's Christian Democratic Union came out very strong, taking forty-two percent of the votes, and giving Merkel her third term as Chancellor.

Expectations are that they will form a coalition with the Social Democrats, the next biggest pro Euro party, who took twenty-six perecent.

However the Alternative for Germany party, which has an anti Euro stance, also gained some ground.

They knocked Merkel's current allies, the Free Democratic Party, out of the Bundestag, but failed to gain a place in Parliament for themselves, with only four percent of the votes.

This marks the first time since the end of World War II that the FDP will not be present in the national government.