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Angela Merkel Fourth Term Chancellor
March 19 , 2018
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- German lawmakers voted to re-elect Angela Merkel as Chancellor for a fourth, and likely final term.
- The majority vote in the Bundestag means the Christian Democratic Union leader embarked on her fourth term.
- She has been elected at the helm of German politics following months of negotiations with the Social Democratic Party (SPD) that culminated in the revival of the so-called grand coalition (mockingly dubbed a "GroKo" in German).
- In a secret ballot, 364 of the Bundestag's 709 members voted in favour of Merkel -- nine more than the 50 per cent required
- Merkel will be formally appointed by President Frank-Walter Steinmeier before taking the oath of office.
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