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German Chancellor Angela Merkel defended an election campaign that left her conservative bloc in first place but significantly weakened as she embarked on Monday on what could be a lengthy quest to form a new government.
Merkel said the success of a nationalist, anti-migrant party that finished third in Sunday's election won't influence her foreign, European and refugee policies.
She once more defended her decision to let in large numbers of migrants, saying Germany wouldn't again face the humanitarian crisis that let to it.
Merkel conceded that it had to led to "polarisation, connected with me personally" but said that a lot of progress has since been made.
The centre-left Social Democratic Party has been Merkel's partner in a "grand coalition" since 2013. The party finished second, but leader Martin Schulz said its dismal showing would require the Social Democrats "to be a strong opposition" going forward.
Germany, Europe's biggest economy, has no tradition of minority governments, and Merkel has made clear she doesn't want to go that route. It would be a tall order anyway, as her bloc only holds 246 of the new parliament's 709 seats.
The most politically plausible option is a three-way coalition with the pro-business Free Democrats and the traditionally left-leaning Greens. The combination, called a "Jamaica" coalition because the parties' colors match those of the Caribbean nation's flag, hasn't been tried before in a national government. Merkel said she will seek talks with the two parties, as well as with the Social Democrats. There's unlikely to be much movement before a state election October 15 in Lower Saxony, one of Germany's most populous states. "It is important that Germany gets a good, stable government," she told reporters at a subdued news conference in Berlin. "All parties ... have a responsibility that we get a stable government."
Merkel will have to bridge differences between the Free Democrats and Greens. The parties have a tradition of mutual suspicion as well as differences on issues including environmental policy, European financial policy and the auto industry's future.
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