[dropcap]G[/dropcap]erman Chancellor Angela Merkel has been re-elected for a fourth term in federal elections, exit polls suggest.Her conservative CDU/CSU alliance has won 32.5% of the vote, remaining the largest party in Germany’s parliament, according to the ARD poll.
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Its coalition partner, the social democratic SPD, has gained 20%. Meanwhile, the AfD, a far-right nationalist, anti-Islam party, was on track to win 13.5%, emerging as Germany’s third-strongest party.