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Ms Merkel was seeking a second four-year term in yesterday's parliamentary election and wanted to end her "grand coalition" with the centre-left Social Democrats of challenger Frank-Walter Steinmeier. Full Article at The Scotsman
ANGELA Merkel scored a resounding victory yesterday in German elections that will enable her to leave her coalition partners behind after they suffered their worst parliamentary result since the Second World War. Full Article at Irish Independent
DRESDEN, GERMANY - NOVEMBER 13: Sigmar Gabriel (C), new Chairman designate of the German Social Democratic Party (SPD), outgoing Chairman Franz Muentefering (L) and SPD Bundestag faction leader Franz-Walter Steinmeier observe a moment of silence for de... View Photo »
"We have achieved something great," she told supporters in Berlin Sunday night. "We have managed to achieve our election aim of a stable majority in Germany for a new government." Full Article at Online NewsHour
Together the Union, as the two parties are known together, had 34 percent. And then their own numbers: Projections for the Social Democrats (SPD) had the party at 23 percent of the vote. Full Article at Spiegel Online
An exit poll by public broadcaster ZDF showed the Free Democratic Party (FDP) on 14.5 percent. Speaking to euphoric party members in Berlin on Sunday, Merkel said she had reached her goal of creating a stable center-right majority. Full Article at Deutsche Welle
DRESDEN, GERMANY - NOVEMBER 13: Sigmar Gabriel (C), new Chairman designate of the German Social Democratic Party (SPD), outgoing Chairman Franz Muentefering (L) and SPD Bundestag faction leader Franz-Walter Steinmeier attend the SPD party congress on N... View Photo »
BERLIN (AP) German Chancellor Angela Merkel was on track to win a second term and form a new center-right government in Sunday's election and her center-left rivals were headed for a historic defeat, exit polls indicated. Full Article at USA Today
Merkel’s rival, Social Democrat Frank-Walter Steinmeier, conceded defeat after she cruised to victory at the helm of a new centre-right coalition. Full Article at The Telegraph
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German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier (L) and Chancellor Angela Merkel take their seats as they arrive to a working session of the cabinet in Berlin March 25, 2009.
View Photo »WINNENDEN, GERMANY - MARCH 21: Frank Walter Steinmeier (L), German foreign minister, Baden-Wuerttemberg's governor Guenther Oettinger (R), his partner Friederike Beyer, German president Horst Koehler (3rd R), his wife Eva Luise and German chancellor Angela Merkel (C) attend a memorial...
View Photo »German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier (L) and German talk show host Reinhold Beckmann are pictured during the recording of an exclusive TV-interview of Steinmeier in the ARD Talkshow "Beckmann" in Berlin March 15, 2009.
View Photo »German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier (L) and German talk show host Reinhold Beckmann pose for photographers before the recording of an exclusive TV-interview of Steinmeier in the ARD Talkshow "Beckmann" in Berlin March 15, 2009.
View Photo »German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier (L) and German talk show host Reinhold Beckmann pose for photographers before the recording of an exclusive TV-interview of Steinmeier in the ARD Talkshow "Beckmann" in Berlin March 15, 2009.
View Photo »German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier (L) and German talk show host Reinhold Beckmann pose for photographers before the recording of an exclusive TV-interview of Steinmeier in the ARD Talkshow "Beckmann" in Berlin March 15, 2009.
View Photo »German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier arrives for the weekly cabinet meeting in the Chancellery in Berlin March 11, 2009.
View Photo »US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (C) speaks with German Foreign minister Frank Walter Steinmeier (L) and NATO Secretary-General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer (R) after a family photo at the NATO Headquarters in Brussels on March 5, 2009 in Brussels.
View Photo »U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, second left, shares a word with Germany's Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, left, during a group photo at a NATO foreign ministers meeting at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Thursday March 5, 2009.
View Photo »German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier arrives at a NATO foreign ministers meeting at the Alliance headquarters in Brussels March 5, 2009.
View Photo »German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, left, speaks with the media as he arrives for a NATO foreign ministers meeting at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Thursday March 5, 2009. Relations with Russia and Afghanistan will be the key items on the agenda.
View Photo »German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, left, speaks with the media as he arrives for a NATO foreign ministers meeting at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Thursday March 5, 2009. Relations with Russia and Afghanistan will be the key items on the agenda.
View Photo »German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier (R) shakes hands with Masoud Barzani, President of the Autonomous Kurdish Government in Iraq, on March 4, 2009 in Berlin. They met for talks on the situation in Iraq.
View Photo »German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier (R) talks to Defence Minister Franz Josef Jung before the weekly cabinet meeting in Berlin, March 4, 2009.
View Photo »German Vice-Chancellor and Foreign minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier (L) and the head of the Opel Works Council Klaus Franz attend a demonstration of some 15,000 Opel employees in front of the main plant of German carmaker's Opel, a unit of the distressed US giant General Motors, in Rue...
View Photo »German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier (L) speaks during a joint news conference with his Iraqi counterpart, Hoshiyar Zebari in Baghdad February 17, 2009.
View Photo »MUNICH, GERMANY - FEBRUARY 06: German Vice Chancellor Frank-Walter Steinmeier (R) arrives at the Hotel Bayerischer Hof during the first day of the Munich conference on security policy on February 6, 2009 in Munich, Germany.
View Photo »MUNICH, GERMANY - FEBRUARY 06: Iran's parliament speaker Ali Larijani (R) is welcomed by German Vice Chancellor Frank-Walter Steinmeier during the first day of the Munich conference on security policy at the Bayerischer Hof on February 6, 2009 in Munich, Germany.
View Photo »MUNICH, GERMANY - FEBRUARY 06: Iran's parliament speaker Ali Larijani (R) is welcomed by German Vice Chancellor Frank-Walter Steinmeier during the first day of the Munich conference on security policy at the Bayerischer Hof on February 6, 2009 in Munich, Germany.
View Photo »German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier (R) and Chancellor Angela Merkel attend the President's annual New Year's reception at the Bellevue palace in Berlin January 13, 2009.
View Photo »German President Horst Koehler (2ndR) and his wife Eva Luise (C) welcome German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier (R) as Chancellor Angela Merkel looks on at the President's annual New Year's reception at the Bellevue palace in Berlin January 13, 2009.
View Photo »Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, left, greets Germany's Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, right, prior to their meeting in Jerusalem, Sunday Jan. 11, 2009. Struggling to keep peace efforts alive, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has urged Israel and Hamas to agree to a truce.
View Photo »German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier (L) meets with Israeli President Shimon Peres in Jerusalem on January 11, 2009 during talks on ending the bloodshed in the Gaza Strip and Israel.
View Photo »German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier (L) shakes hands with Israeli President Shimon Peres in Jerusalem on January 11, 2009 during talks on ending the bloodshed in the Gaza Strip and Israel.
View Photo »PROTECTIVE REPEAT - Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas (R) meets with German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier (L) in Cairo on January 10, 2009.
View Photo »WINNENDEN, GERMANY - MARCH 21: Frank Walter Steinmeier (L), German foreign minister, Baden-Wuerttemberg's governor Guenther Oettinger (R), his partner Friederike Beyer, German president Horst Koehler (3rd R), his wife Eva Luise and German chancellor Angela Merkel (C) attend a memorial...
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