On Sunday 22 September 2013, Angela Merkel won her third election and re-established herself as Federal Chancellor of Germany, i.e. as head of government of the Federal Republic of Germany.In the September 2005 elections, her party, the CDU-CSU (Christian Democratic Union combined with the Christian Social Union of Bavaria) had only won four more seats than the SPD (Social Democratic Party). In 2005, Angela Merkel became Germany's first female chancellor thanks to the grand coalition, a government agreement between the two major German political movements CDU-CSU and SPD. During her first te...

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