Congratulation Angela Merkel................................... German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s center-right Christian Democrats won a historic victory Sunday, with voters overwhelmingly endorsing the party with the largest margin since German reunification in 1990, according to near-final election projections by German television networks. The results, which were closely watched worldwide because of Germany’s paramount economic leadership within Europe, were a ringing endorsement of Merkel’s stewardship over years of international crisis and recession that barely touched German soil. Merkel, who has led the country since 2005, said that she planned to stay for a full four-year term, putting her in the pantheon of long-serving German leaders Helmut Kohl, who united East and West Germany, and Konrad Adenauer, who rebuilt West Germany after World War II. Merkel’s party appeared to be just short of an absolute majority of Parliament’s 598 seats, a rarity in German’s usual coalition system that has not happened since the time of Adenauer. Early Monday, projections by Germany’s public television networks with more than four-fifths of the vote counted were that Merkel would miss the mark by three or four seats and would be forced to seek a junior partner to govern. The likeliest candidate would be the center-left Social Democrats, analysts said. The party was the runner-up in Sunday’s elections and served in a coalition with Merkel from 2005 to 2009. washingtonpost/world/europe/exit-polls-show-angela-merkels-christian-democrats-party-leading-in-german-elections/2013/09/22/a7efdb80-23a4-11e3-b3e9-d97fb087acd6_story.html
Posted on: Mon, 23 Sep 2013 19:22:39 +0000
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