{"id":7700,"date":"2018-03-14T16:32:43","date_gmt":"2018-03-14T16:32:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/?p=7700"},"modified":"2018-03-14T16:32:43","modified_gmt":"2018-03-14T16:32:43","slug":"merkel-voted-into-4th-term-as-german-chancellor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/merkel-voted-into-4th-term-as-german-chancellor\/","title":{"rendered":"Merkel voted into 4th term as German chancellor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-4324\" src=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Angela-Merke.jpg\" alt=\"Angela Merke\" width=\"335\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Angela-Merke.jpg 404w, https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Angela-Merke-300x201.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 335px) 100vw, 335px\" \/>Germany\u2019s parliament on Wednesday voted in Angela Merkel to a fourth term as the country\u2019s chancellor, heading a \u201cgrand coalition\u201d of conservative and center-left parties.<br \/>\nMerkel was re-elected by 364 votes in Germany\u2019s lower house, or Bundestag, with 315 votes against and nine abstentions.<br \/>\nHer Christian Democratic bloc (CDU\/CSU) and Social Democratic Party reached an agreement last month to form another \u201cgrand coalition\u201d government, after a months-long post-election stalemate.<br \/>\nMerkel&#8217;s CDU\/CSU alliance emerged as the largest bloc in parliament following September\u2019s federal election, but they failed to secure an absolute majority.<br \/>\nThe SPD suffered its worst result in decades but remained the second-largest party in parliament.<\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\r\n<script>(function(d, s, id) {\r\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\r\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\r\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\r\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/all.js#xfbml=1\";\r\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\r\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));<\/script>\r\n <fb:comments href=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/merkel-voted-into-4th-term-as-german-chancellor\/\" font=\"arial\" num_posts=\"\" width=\"\" height=\"\" colorscheme=\"light\"  style=\"background:#FFFFFF;padding-top:0px;\r\npadding-right:0px;\r\npadding-bottom:0px;\r\npadding-left:0px;\r\nmargin-top:0px;\r\nmargin-right:0px;\r\nmargin-bottom:0px;\r\nmargin-left:0px;\r\n\"><\/fb:comments>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Germany\u2019s parliament on Wednesday voted in Angela Merkel to a fourth term as the country\u2019s chancellor, heading a \u201cgrand coalition\u201d of conservative and center-left parties. Merkel was re-elected by 364 votes in Germany\u2019s lower house, or Bundestag, with 315 votes against and nine abstentions. Her Christian Democratic bloc (CDU\/CSU) and Social Democratic Party reached an &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4324,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,2],"tags":[],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7700"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7700"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7701,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7700\/revisions\/7701"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}