Germany’s Angel Wins Again!By Nancy Matthis | Sunday, September 27th, 2009 at 3:48 pm
Der Spiegel has the good news. Angela Merkel has won a second term as German Chancellor in Sunday’s elections. And even better news — she doesn’t have to form an uneasy coalition with the center-left Social Democratic Party. Projections show:
- Merkel’s Christian Democrat Union party won 33.8 percent
- her preferred partner, the Free Democratic Party, won 14.7 percent
- her left-0f-center former partner, the Social Democratic Party, won 23.0 percent
From Der Spiegel — Merkel Wins German Election, Has Majority for Center-Right Government
German Chancellor Angela Merkel won a second term in Sunday’s federal election and will be able to form a government with the pro-business Free Democratic Party (FDP), dumping the center-left Social Democratic Party (SPD) with whom she has ruled since 2005 in an uneasy coalition, projections showed.
She will have a comfortable center-right majority in the Bundestag lower house of parliament with an estimated 323 seats, 15 more than the absolute majority of 308 seats….
We can only sit across the pond and watch with envy. Germany has the terrific Chancellor Angela Merkel, Israel has the courageous Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and we have… oh, well…
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