Berlin: Angela Merkel won an overwhelming endorsement from...

Berlin: Angela Merkel won an overwhelming endorsement from German voters, putting the country's first female chancellor on course for the biggest election tally since Helmut Kohl's post-reunification victory of 1990.
Merkel's Christian Democratic bloc took 42.4 per cent of the vote in Sunday's election to 25.7 per cent for the Social Democrats of Peer Steinbrueck, according to projections on ZDF television as of 7:58 pm. If confirmed, that would put her one seat short of an absolute majority in the lower house, ZDF said. The only leader without a partner since World War II was Konrad Adenauer in 1957.


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