Posted on 09/22/2013 11:47:41 AM PDT by Innovative
Chancellor Angela Merkel won a landslide personal victory in a German election on Sunday, putting her within reach of the first absolute majority in parliament in half a century, a ringing endorsement of her steady leadership in the euro crisis.
Partial results put her conservative bloc - the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and Bavarian Christian Social Union (CSU) -- on 42.5 percent, which if confirmed would be their strongest score since 1990, the year of German unification.
The outcome could give Merkel an edge of a few seats over the combined opposition in the Bundestag lower house for the first time since conservative Chancellor Konrad Adenauer achieved that feat in 1957. But she may still need a coalition partner for her third term when the final votes are counted.
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Deutscheland, Deutscheland, Uber alles, Uber alles ...
ALL THAT IS GREEN!!
Congratulations, Frau Merkel!
Actually, she was born in Hamburg (West Germany). Her father was a pastor who relocated the family to the east in the early 1950s before the Wall went up. They got stuck there and her formative years were East German. Don't know if her birth place influenced her much as regards today.
One would hope that having experienced socialism first hand, she would know some things not to do. The fall of the wall was like a release from prison for most Ossies.
...putting her within reach of the first absolute majority in parliament in half a century... her conservative bloc -- the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and Bavarian Christian Social Union (CSU) -- ...42.5 percent... if confirmed would be their strongest score since 1990, the year of German unification.
Actually, she was born in Hamburg................................ That’s like saying Liberal NYC.
“Wow, a dictator won reelection.”
You may not like her politics, but Merkel is not a dictator. And, in case you haven’t heard, Chavez es muerto.
CDU should form a coalition with the Greens. SDP would have too much power.
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