Merkel’s candidate elected German president Chancellor Angela Merkel’s candidate was elected German president Wednesday in a lackluster victory that took an embarrassing three rounds of voting and dashed hopes of a strong show of support from her governing coalition, The Associated Press reports.
Christian Wulff, a 51-year-old deputy leader of Merkel’s conservative party, won 625 votes in a special parliamentary...
ashkharh July 1, 2010 10:00