Roland Koch (R), Premier of the western state of Hesse and candidate of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), and Joerg-Uwe Hahn, candidate of Hesse's liberal Free Democrats (FDP), pose for photographers as they meet on January 20, 2009 in Wiesbaden for coalition talks, two days after the state vote in Hesse. German Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative CDU trounced the centre-left SPD in the vote, kicking off a super election year forecast to give her a second term. The FDP, the CDU's preferred coalition partners both in Hesse and at national level, saw the biggest increase in their share of the vote. AFP PHOTO DDP/THOMAS LOHNES GERMANY OUT (Photo credit should read THOMAS LOHNES/AFP/Getty Images)