Political Parties React To Election Results

BERLIN, GERMANY - SEPTEMBER 22: (L-R) Regional party chairman of their CDU party in the southern German state of Baden-Wuerttemberg, Thomas Strobl, Gerda Hasselfeldt, Bundestag faction leader of the Christian Social Union (CSU), the Bavarian sister party of the German Christian Democratic Union (CDU), Angela Merkel, German Chancellor and Chairwoman of the German Christian Democrats (CDU), CDU Secretary General Hermann Groehe and Volker Kauder, Chairman of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group in the Bundestag, react to initial exit poll results that give the party 42% of the vote in German federal elections at CDU party headquarters on September 22, 2013 in Berlin, Germany. Germany is holding federal elections that will determine whether current Chancellor Angela Merkel of the German Christian Democrats (CDU) will remain for a third term. Though the CDU has a strong lead over the opposition, speculations run wide as to what coalition will be viable in coming weeks to create a new government. (Photo by Clemens Bilan/Getty Images)