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German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, secures 33% votes, to form a coalition Government

German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, has won a fourth term in office after a General Election in the Country yesterday.

“we expected a better result that is clear. The good thing is that we will definitely lead the next Government” She said

Merkel, who belongs to the centre-right Christian Democratic Union party, secured 33% of the votes while major opposition Martin Schulz, who belongs to the centre-left Social Democrats ,got 20.5% of Sunday’s votes.

She is the third Chancellor since World War II to hold a fourth term and also Europe’s longest serving leader.

Merkel, who has been the Chancellor of Germany since 2005 and the leader of Christian Democratic Union since 2000, faces tough negotiations in coming weeks as she attempts to engineer a governing coalition that can withstand pressure from the far right which has swept into the German parliament for the first time in over five decades.

Not many women have held top positions in Government, but Merkel, who is Germany’s first female political leader, have succeeded in a male-oriented party.

She has accomplished a lot since she took over in 2005. Germany’s economy has experienced strong growth over the years and income inequality is less pronounced.

The German Chancellor has strengthened European cooperation and International Trade agreements and she has been able to give a steady hand at a time of global instability.

She guided her country through a recession with stimulus packages and subsidies for companies that cut hours for workers, and Germany entered 2016 with a budget surplus of 12.1 billion euros ($13.1 billion).

She has also used her power against ISIS, breaking the post-Nazi-era taboo of direct involvement in military actions by sending arms to Kurdish fighters and managing more than 1 million migrants who have entered Germany in recent years.

Germany has a fairly liberal consensus on most social issues and it subscribes to a uniquely conservative economic doctrine in some respects. For example, Merkel voted against same sex marriage in Germany and at the same time was fighting anti-LGBT discrimination.

Although, the German Chancellor’s party is a conservative party, Merkel is neither a conservative nor is she a liberalist.

Meanwhile, in the North Korea nuclear weapon face-off with the United States, she has maintained that diplomacy was the key to solving the problem, adding that an agreement with North Korea that is similar to the 2015 Iran nuclear deal should be done.

However, the United States President, Donald Trump, has claimed to be a conservative, fighting for ‘America first’ before other things, whereas he has been lambasted by some people who feel he is not a conservative as he claims.

Mr Trump withdrew the United States from Paris Agreement on Climate Change saying it was punitive and unfair.

In Africa for example, there are conservatives who when it comes to same sex marriage, do not want to hear of it, because it feels alien to Africans’ culture whereas when it comes to the economy of the country some Africans become liberal.

No country is fully conservative; they are partially liberal or conservative and not fully liberal or conservative as some leaders claim.

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