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...to listen and consider before acting. Germany's election in September strengthened her, allowing her to dump a "grand coalition" with the center-left Social Democrats, Germany's second-biggest party. She has switched to a new alliance with...

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...out to be Kohl's heiress, Angela Merkel. She brought in her erstwhile rival for four years as interior minister in her grand coalition of Christian Democrats and Social Democrats from 2005. Following Merkel's election victory five weeks...

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...votes, just enough to form a government. A further drop would force Mrs Merkel to revive the Right-Left "grand coalition" with the Social Democrats that has governed Germany for the last four years. Mrs Merkel has been careful not to...

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...national polls, while the Free Democrats are a pro-business opposition party. Merkel currently governs Germany in a "grand coalition" with the Social Democrats. Posted on Mon, Aug. 31, 2009 06:38 AM Merkel confident for Germany's Sept 27....

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...as it has done in several regional parliaments. Such a move would inevitably force new elections and could result in a coalition of Social Democrats, the Linke and the Greens governing Germany. It would also mean the end of Ms Merkel's...

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...governed Germany. There was not much grand about this arrangement, though. The Social Democrats remained scarred by their attempts to reform Germany. A new populist left-wing party, formed by disgruntled trade unionists and East German...

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...a second term as Chancellor. Opinion polls taken over the past week have shown Ms Merkel's CDU-CSU alliance losing ground to Germany's second largest party, the Social Democrats, led by Frank-Walter Steinmeier. The decline is not dramatic,...

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...party at 12 percent. Both the Christian and Social Democrats have ruled out a coalition with the Left, made up of ex-Communists and former Social Democrats disenchanted by their party's support for economic reforms. Germany is the world's...

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...crisis through a series of government-backed short-term contracts. Both Merkel and Steinmeier have ruled out a coalition with the Left, a mix of former East German communists and Social Democrats angered by economic reform. More in the news

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