Officials warn that Germany’s parliamentary elections on Sunday might be the last gasp of normalcy in the Bundenstag if establishment parties don’t fulfill voters’ expectations.

The center-right Christian Democratic Union and its Bavarian sister party, the Christian Social Union, won the Feb. 23 election with 28.5%. It’s an uncomfortably lackluster victory in a country that is reaching a conservative high water mark.

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