Angela Dorothea Merkel14 November 2005
Merkel is elected Chancellor by the majority of delegates (397 to 217) in the newly assembled Bundestag
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Merkel is elected Chancellor by the majority of delegates (397 to 217) in the newly assembled Bundestag
Angela Merkel becomes the first female Chancellor of Germany after working out a power-sharing agreement with outgoing Chancellor Gerhard Schroders Social Democratic Party
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