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12 People, 12 Months: Those That Shaped 2013 (9)

(Globaltimes.cn)    09:30, January 03, 2014
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2013/09 - German Chancellor Angela Merkel

German Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative Christian Democrats (CDU) and their Bavarian sister party, the Christian Social Union (CSU), emerged as the biggest winner in the federal election on September 22.

The pair garnered 41.5 percent of the vote, while the largest opposition party, the center-left Social Democrats (SPD), took 25.7 percent, according to the results.

On December 17, Merkel was reelected in a vote in the lower house of parliament for a third term, and her coalition government will be sworn into office to rule Europe's biggest economy for the next four years.

Global Times spotlights this year’s 12 most influential people from across the world.

【1】 【2】 【3】 【4】 【5】 【6】 【7】 【8】 【9】 【10】
【11】 【12】

(Editor:ZhangQian、Yao Chun)

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