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Merkel Wins Re-Election, New Coalition

Germany's chancellor will form new bloc with center-right

By Polly Davis Doig, Newser Staff

Posted Sep 27, 2009 12:28 PM CDT

(Newser) – 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... Read full story »

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