Chancellor Angela Merkel led her conservatives to their best result in decades in a German election on September 22 but must still find a coalition partner to secure a third term.
She will first sound out the centre-left Social Democrats (SPD), with whom she ruled between 2005 and 2009, in exploratory talks scheduled for Friday October 4. Merkel then plans preliminary talks with the smaller Greens party next week.
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