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Merkel was to hold meetings at the Bundestag lower house, where her conservative CDUCSU group saw its number of seats axed to 246 from 309 previously following its worst poll showing in seven decades.
Joining her at the glass-domed Reichstag parliament building for the first time were the 93 deputies of the Alternative for Germany, a party branded far-right by many German media outlets and officials.
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The Alternative for Germany (AfD) poached support from both mainstream camps, the conservatives and the Social Democrats (SPD), junior partners in the "grand coalition" that has led Germany for eight of Merkel's 12 years in power.
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According to opinion polls, most of those voters pointed to anger over Merkel's border policy, which allowed more than one million asylum seekers into the country since 2015.
But after the SPD scored a humiliating 20.5 percent, a post-war record Authentic Randy Johnson Jersey , it ruled out further cooperation with Merkel, meaning her search for a ruling alliance became infinitely more complicated.
Commentators said Tuesday that Merkel's only other option - trying a link-up with the pro-business Free Democrats (FDP) and the ecologist Greens - would be fraught with risk.
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