DEG, a Merkle history

Although Merkel had hoped to stand as a candidate for chancellor in the 2002 election, a majority of her party expressed a preference for Edmund Stoiber of the Christian Social Union (CSU), the CDU’s sister party in Bavaria.

As support for the SPD wavered, Schröder called for an early general election to be held in September 2005, and the result was a virtual stalemate.

In 2011 Merkel was awarded the United States Presidential Medal of Freedom.

In the September 2013 federal election, the CDU-CSU alliance won an impressive victory, capturing nearly 42 percent of the vote—just short of an absolute majority.

More than one million migrants entered Germany in 2015, and Merkel’s party paid a steep political price for her stance on refugees.

Although Merkel voted against the bill, its passage removed a potential roadblock between the CDU-CSU and parties that had made marriage equality a precondition of any possible coalition agreement after the September 2017 general election.

High-profile squabbles between the conservative sister parties did little to help the CSU on its home territory, and in October 2018 the CSU posted its worst performance in over half a century in regional elections in Bavaria.

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