German Chancellor Angela Merkel (L) holds a bouquet of flowers as she is applauded by two of five vice party chairmen of her conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) Thomas Strobl (C) and Julia Kloeckner (R) as they arrive for a meeting with their party's leadership in Berlin on September 25, 2016, one day after general elections. Merkel woke up to a fourth term but now faces the double headache of an emboldened hard-right opposition party and thorny coalition talks ahead. / AFP PHOTO / Odd ANDERSEN