FxWirePro: German election uncertainty ends with Merkel elected for fourth term

The political uncertainty that was triggered in September last year after German Federal elections where no single Party received enough votes to form a stable government finally ended on Wednesday with incumbent German Chancellor Angela Merkel being elected for the fourth term and she is now officially on her way to become the longest-serving German chancellor.

Madam Merkel was elected with the votes of 364 of the 688 MPs who cast their ballots in the German parliament, Bundestag. She will be governing Germany for another four years as the head of the ‘Grand Coalition’ between her Christian Democratic Union (CDU), its sister party Christian Social Union (CSU), the Social Democrats (SPD), and the Greens. If she is able to serve the fourth term in full, she would equate the record of Helmut Kohl, the formal chancellor who oversaw the reunification of Germany and served for 16 years.