The Enduring Appeal of Angela Merkel
The German chancellor secured a fourth term with 32.5 percent of the vote.
Angela Merkel secured her fourth term as chancellor Sunday after German voters handed her center-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU)—and its Bavarian sister party, the Christian Social Union (CSU)—the largest share of votes, a largely anticipated result marking the end of a race that several observers had written off as “boring.”
They weren’t wrong. In the weeks leading up to the race, appeared to predict Merkel’s electoral victory as an all-but-foregone conclusion. According to , Merkel’s CDU/CSU received 32.5 percent of the vote, slightly lowerthan experts had predicted.
