Okay, you call it: Is German Christian Democratic Party leader Angela Merkel rolling her eyes in disgust or is she praying for divine intervention? Either reaction would be understandable. After failing to deliver the knockout punch to Gerhard Schroeder and his Social Democratic Party, Merkel--and Schroeder, for that matter--has been forced to look for coalition partners to form a ruling majority in the Bundestag. It appears unlikely that Merkel can pull it off, with Schroeder's prospects seeming slightly better. If no ruling coalition is forged, another election will have to be called, a possibility that must overjoy the German electorate. Given the trendlines that developed in the last two weeks of the campaign, Schroeder would have to be considered the frontrunner in a rerun.
Both parties may decide to form a grand coalition, though. That would be very interesting...as in contentious.
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