Berlin sources stated that Germany’s parliament has elected Angela Merkel for her fourth term as chancellor, putting an end to nearly six months of political drift in Europe’s biggest economy. Recently the lawmakers voted 364-315 on Wednesday to re-elect Merkel, who ran unopposed, where there were nine abstentions.
Further sources have made a statement that the coalition of Merkel’s conservative Christian Democratic Union, its Bavaria-only sister party, the Christian Social Union and the center-left Social Democrats has 399 seats. Moreover according to sources the same parties have governed for the past four years but putting together the new coalition has been hard work.
Accordingly the Wednesday’s parliamentary vote comes 171 days nearly
double the previous record after September’s election, in which they all lost
significant ground. The Social Democrats initially planned to go into
opposition. Accordingly Merkel will head a much-changed new Cabinet.
