Chancellor Angela Merkel on Sunday won fourth term in an election that was set to bring a far-right party into Germany's parliament for the first time in more than half a century.
Ms Merkel, Europe's longest serving leader, joined the late Helmut Kohl, her mentor who reunified Germany, and Konrad Adenauer, who led Germany's rebirth after World War Two, as the only post-war chancellors to win four national elections.
