Friday, June 18, 2010

Is Merkel's Government About to Crumble? Merkel facing her own "Waterloo" at an event coming up June 30

Germany - Is Merkel's Government About to Crumble? Merkel facing her own "Waterloo" at an event
coming up June 30; a failure to have her selection for president voted into the job could doom her
government; Germany's largely ceremonial position of president is filled by vote of the Federal Assembly, a
body made up of federal lawmakers and regional delegates. Merkel's coalition holds a majority, but it is slim.
Just two dozen renegades among the 1,244-member assembly could spell doom for her handpicked
candidate, Christian Wulff, current governor of the state of Lower Saxony. Spiegel

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