Chancellor Angela Merkel is celebrating a landslide victory, with her Christian Democratic Union (CDU) having fallen just short of an outright parliamentary majority. But the scale of her triumph is mainly due to the collapse of her liberal coalition partner, the Free Democratic Party (FDP), which for the first time in the German Federal Republic’s history will not be represented in the Bundestag.
总理默克尔正在庆祝她的压倒性胜利，她的基督教民主联盟（CDU）几乎获得了议院的全部多数。但她之所以获得如此大胜，主要是因为她的自由派联盟伙伴自由民主党（FDP）的崩溃，该党在德意志联邦共和国的历史上第一次没能获得联邦议院席位。