This Sunday, 23 February, Germans vote in parliamentary elections, deciding who will occupy the 630 seats of the Bundestag and who will be the country's next chancellor. Who are the candidates, and what are their views on Germany's relationship with France?
In the running for leader of Europe's biggest economy are candidates from the ruling centre-left Social Democrats (SPD), Germany's oldest political party; the opposition centre-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU); Alliance 90/The Greens, and the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), which is fielding a candidate for the first time.
