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Chancellor Angela Merkel captured a landslide victory in German elections September 22, for guiding Europe’s top economy unharmed through the debt crisis, decisively winning a third term and nearing an absolute majority. Voters punished her pro-business junior partner, the Free Democrats, who have been plagued by power struggles, kicking them out of parliament for the first time since their founding after World War II. Merkel’s stunning score – the conservatives’ best result since the country’s joyous reunification in 1990 – meant that she nearly became the only chancellor to win an absolute majority since Germany’s first post-war leader, Konrad Adenauer, 56 years ago.
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