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Germany getting first female chancellor
(AP)
Updated: 2005-10-10 20:45
Conservative leader Angela Merkel on Monday confirmed a
coalition deal that will make her Germany's first female chancellor under the
terms of a power-sharing agreement that would end Social Democrat Gerhard
Schroeder's seven years in office.
Conservative challenger Angela Merkel, left,
rings a bell at the start of a meeting of the party executive of her
Christian Democrats in Berlin on Monday, Oct. 10, 2005, after Monday's
meeting with German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, his key ally Social
Democratic Party Chairman Franz Muentefering and her fellow conservative
leader Edmund Stoiber. Conservative leader Angela Merkel would become
Germany's first female chancellor under a power-sharing agreement that
would end Social Democrat Gerhard Schroeder's seven years in office,
Social Democratic officials said Monday. [AP] |
Speaking at a press conference, Merkel called the deal "good and fair" and
said the parties agreed that "there is no alternative to a reform course" for
Germany. The deal, which must still pass coalition negotiations on important
details, gives her side six seats and the Social Democrats eight in a new
cabinet.
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