Can Germany's conservatives cobble together a coalition?

Another major country has flipped politically to the conservative column. After three years of a drifting center-Left coalition government, voters elected the conservative (small c)  Christian Democratic Union CDU in Germany’s parliamentary elections. Yet what was expected to be a massive win for the likely new Chancellor Frederich Merz, became a bit disappointing when his party gained 28.5 percent of the vote.
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