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Angela Merkel was sworn in to the first German Chancellor,

"Angela Merkel must be really proud," - Volker Kauder is very pleased with the outcome. Angela Merkel was elected on Tuesday in parliament with 397 votes for the head of government. 49 MEPs from the grand coalition of CDU, CSU and SPD, Merkel failed the trust. With delight she took in the historic election then Horst Köhler originally from East Germany physicist at Charlottenburg Palace appointed to the Chancellor.

"I'm doing very well and I am very happy and I'm happy!"

Despite the many dissenting votes from the ranks of union leaders said, and the SPD of a good beginning for the second grand coalition at the federal level.

"It was not a very good result, but also not bad."

Köhler urged the new government to push through reforms against the opposition of many pages. Union and the SPD in the Bundestag put together 448 members of which were missing after SPD detail two. voted against Merkel in the words by Norbert Lammert 202 parliamentarians, twelve abstained. A vote was invalid.

"According to Konrad Adenauer, Ludwig Erhard, Kurt Georg Kiesinger, Willy Brandt, Helmut Schmidt, Helmut Kohl and Gerhard Schröder, making it the deputy Dr. Angela Merkel with the required majority of votes of the members of the German Bundestag, the first Federal Chancellor of Germany elected.'s a strong signal for many women and some men, certainly. "

Angela Merkel, Schroeder was the first of congratulations said, visibly moved:

"Mr. President, I accept the choice."

The result had been expected in view of the closeness of the grand coalition with tension. Until the end, leading SPD politicians like Schroeder had advertised in the ranks of popular support for Merkel, against but not excluded. The opposition Greens, FDP and the Left Party had announced to vote against the head of the CDU. Several SPD parliamentarians praised Merkel for her brief appearance on Monday before the SPD, who had introduced her sympathies. In the SPD, but it was said that the Union was out of concern for votes against from within the last attempts to shift responsibility for deviants only the SPD. Unions in the Group was approximately the CDU politician Friedrich financial Merz as Merkel's opponents. The relationship between the two has broken down, since Merkel took off his 2002 Group chairman. At noon President Keller presented the head of the CDU, the certificate of appointment. Then Merkel spoke as chairman of the Christian Democratic Union in their oath of office in parliament affirmation "so help me God," had waived the Schröder. In the afternoon, when appointing the Ministers Köhler urged reforms to boost employment market. The coalition had a patriotic responsibility, should also listen carefully to the opposition and ensure fairness in the Bundestag. Köhler urged apparently alluding to the debate on the constitutionality of the household to respect the provisions of the Basic Law. After the oath of office of the new cabinet ministers should meet in the evening to the first session. Merkel-Portrait: The coronation of the experiment - SPD group praised improvement - Focus Online - Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger - Basler Zeitung - The Presse.com

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