GERMAN VOTE
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Merkel Wins Re-Election, New Coalition
Germany's chancellor will form new bloc with center-right
By Polly Davis Doig
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Posted Sep 27, 09 12:28 PM CDT
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(Newser)
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Angela Merkel was headed to re-election today, and German voters were sending her along with enough votes to cobble together a center-right coalition and ditch the Social Democrats she has been allied with since 2005. Exit polls on German television showed Merkel's conservative bloc with 33.4% of the vote, while her onetime allies went down to bitter defeat as voters gave the center-right Free Democrat Party another 14.8%.