AlQa'dah 17, 1434, Sep 23, 2013, SPA -- Chancellor Angela Merkel emerged the clear winner of Sunday's election after her conservative political bloc surged to its best result in 20 years, giving her a strong hand in likely talks on forming a new grand coalition of the nation's biggest parties, DPA reported. Merkel's Christian Democrats (CDU) and their Bavarian-based Christian Social Union (CSU) associate party scored 41.5 per cent of the vote after achieving a stunning upward swing of more than 8 percentage points, election officials said after all districts had reported their results. "It's a super result," she told supporters at CDU headquarters in Berlin to loud applause and chants of "Angie, Angie."
