Merkel vows to form grand coalition despite strife

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Series Details 2.11.05
Publication Date 02/11/2005
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Despite a power struggle in the SPD party and the decision by a key conservative power broker, Edmund Stoiber, not to join her cabinet, German Chancellor-in-waiting Angela Merkel insisted on 1 November 2005 the Christian Democrats would form a grand coalition government with the Social Democrats.

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BBC News, 2.11.05: Merkel to pursue coalition talks http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4395850.stm

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