BERLIN, March 15 (Xinhua) — Christian Democratic Union (CDU) leader Angela
Merkel was re-elected chancellor for the fourth time on Wednesday by a
narrow majority of delegates in the German federal parliament (Bundestag).
The 63-year old veteran stateswoman was supported by 364 out of 688
delegates during the anonymous vote, granting her only four more votes than
the minimum threshold of 355 in the 709-seat chamber under German law.
Given that the ruling “grand coalition” parties have a combined 399 seats
in the current parliament, the opposition unanimously voted against
Merkel.After taking an oath in the federal parliament, Merkel was received
by German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier at his official Bellevue palace
residence in Berlin where she was inaugurated together with her 15 cabinet
ministers.At the ceremony, Steinmeier urged the new government to win back
trust which German citizens had lost in their political system. “A simple
reiteration of the old will not suffice,” the president warned.
The result of the parliamentary vote has no bearing on the legislative
power of the new “grand coalition” and was largely interpreted by media and
politicians as a public show of frustrated over the protracted process of
government formation following national elections in September
2017.Nevertheless, designated SPD leader Andrea Nahles expressed
astonishment at the narrow margin with which Merkel secured her
chancellorship.”There were more opposition votes than I had expected,”
Nahles told the broadcaster Welt. She insisted that the SPD position had
been “very cohesive”, pointing her finger at rebel delegates in the CDU and
CSU factions.Opposition parties interpreted Merkel’s parliamentary
confirmation as evidence for growing fatigue with the “grand coalition” and
remaining internal disputes between the CDU, CSU and SPD. Free Democratic
Party (FDP) leader Christian Lindner, who triggered the collapse of earlier
“Jamaica” coalition negotiations, described Wednesday’s vote as
constituting a “loss of authority” for the chancellor.The new federal
cabinet will convene for the first time later today. Foreign minister Heiko
Maas (SPD) will also travel to Paris on Wednesday in a first demonstration
of the normalization of German politics to Berlin’s international
partners.The chancellor is subsequently scheduled to meet with French
President Emmanuel Macron on Friday to discuss Franco-German plans for the
reform of the European Union (EU) and eurozone.
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