German Chancellor Angela Merkel Maintains Leadership Following Vote

According to early exit polls German Chancellor Angela Merkel has maintained her position of leadership following Sunday’s vote. Merkel’s conservative bloc captured more than 33% of the vote and she now appears ready to establish a center-right alliance to govern the country.

Speaking in Berlin shortly after the exit polls indicated her victory Merkel told her supporters “Our main objective has been achieved, namely a change of government, which for me is what really counts this evening.”

That change of government will include an alliance with the pro-reform FDP and Merkel has already planned to hold “swift and decisive” talks with their leader Guido Westerwelle who is already being tipped as the next foreign minister.

Merkel has led a grand coalition since 2005, a coalition that included the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD0 with whom she often clashed. Frank-Walter Steinmeir, leader of the SPD, called Sunday’s results a “bitter defeat” but vowed his party would be “vigilant in opposition.”

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