Merkel formally elected German chancellor for 2nd term

2009/10/28 06:08:32 @Reuters: International News

BERLIN (Reuters) - The German parliament formally elected Angela Merkel to a second term as chancellor on Wednesday, although by a smaller margin than expected, paving the way for her center-right coalition to take office later in the day. div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=zxM9tEiU3iE:IRnSUJLMO0A:yIl2AUoC8zA" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=zxM9tEiU3iE:IRnSUJLMO0A:F7zBnMyn0Lo" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=zxM9tEiU3iE:IRnSUJLMO0A:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=zxM9tEiU3iE:IRnSUJLMO0A:V_sGLiPBpWU" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=zxM9tEiU3iE:IRnSUJLMO0A:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0" /img /a /div img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/reuters/worldNews/~4/zxM9tEiU3iE" height="1" width="1"/
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