Warsaw - Polish media on Monday welcomed German Chancellor Angela Merkel's victory and said the country needed change in the face of the financial crisis. "Germans decided yesterday who will rule the country in the time of the biggest post-war crisis," the daily Dziennik said in a story under the headline "Merkel's sure win."
Merkel secured victory on Sunday as the head of a new centre-right coalition of her Christian Democrats (CDU) and its Bavarian sister party, the Christian Social Union (CSU).
"Voters appreciated the competence of liberals in economic issues," a commentator said in the daily Rzeczpospolita.
But Merkel's win was bittersweet, said an editorial in the Gazeta Wyborcza, Poland's biggest daily, as some 30 per cent of voters cast their ballot in one of the lowest turn-outs in CDU's history.
"It was the fault of a passive and colorless campaign," the daily wrote, "in which the chancellor avoided attacking opponents, and her platform didn't differ much from the rival (Social Democratic Party)."
