Chancellor Angela Merkel says she will start talks with liberals and Greens to try to form a new coalition government after last month's election. Merkel won a fourth term in the September 24th vote but the far-right Alternative for Germany poached one million votes from her conservative bloc, leaving her without an obvious coalition. Her party's former coalition partners were crushed in the polls in September. She had already announced that she would seek exploratory talks on forming an alliance between her CDU/CSU bloc and two smaller parties, the pro-business Free Democrats (FDP) and the ecologist Greens.
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