03:02Paris residents shared their reactions to the German Social Democratic Party's (SPD) narrow electoral victory on Monday.
Most locals seemed to think that regardless of the outcome of coalition negotiations, Franco-German relations would stay much the same. Several also had words of praise for German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who will leave office after almost 16 years in power once a new government is formed.
According to official provisional results, the SPD came first with 25.7 percent and 206 seats, while Merkel's Christian Democratic Union (CDU), along with its Bavarian sister party, came second with 24.1 percent and 196 seats. The Greens and the Free Democratic Party (FDP), both of which will be key to forming any new government, came in third with 14.8 percent, and 118 seats, and fourth with 11.5 percent, and 92 seats, respectively.
France: Parisians react after SPD win narrow victory in German elections
Paris residents shared their reactions to the German Social Democratic Party's (SPD) narrow electoral victory on Monday.
Most locals seemed to think that regardless of the outcome of coalition negotiations, Franco-German relations would stay much the same. Several also had words of praise for German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who will leave office after almost 16 years in power once a new government is formed.
According to official provisional results, the SPD came first with 25.7 percent and 206 seats, while Merkel's Christian Democratic Union (CDU), along with its Bavarian sister party, came second with 24.1 percent and 196 seats. The Greens and the Free Democratic Party (FDP), both of which will be key to forming any new government, came in third with 14.8 percent, and 118 seats, and fourth with 11.5 percent, and 92 seats, respectively.
Paris residents shared their reactions to the German Social Democratic Party's (SPD) narrow electoral victory on Monday.
Most locals seemed to think that regardless of the outcome of coalition negotiations, Franco-German relations would stay much the same. Several also had words of praise for German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who will leave office after almost 16 years in power once a new government is formed.
According to official provisional results, the SPD came first with 25.7 percent and 206 seats, while Merkel's Christian Democratic Union (CDU), along with its Bavarian sister party, came second with 24.1 percent and 196 seats. The Greens and the Free Democratic Party (FDP), both of which will be key to forming any new government, came in third with 14.8 percent, and 118 seats, and fourth with 11.5 percent, and 92 seats, respectively.