Merkel And Free Markets Romp To Victory In Germany

Read about it here in a non-USA newspaper.

"We have achieved something great," Mrs Merkel told supporters on Sunday night. "We have managed to achieve our election aim of a stable majority in Germany for a new government."

"There is no talking around it: this is a bitter defeat," Mr Steinmeier said as he conceded defeat after projected results showed a wide margin of victory for Mrs Merkel.

She vowed to hold "swift and decisive" coalition talks with the FDP leader, Guido Westerwelle, who has been widely tipped as Germany's next foreign minister.

Together with the FDP, Mrs Merkel is expected to push for a new era of deeper economic reforms and tax cuts for Europe's biggest economy. Mrs Merkel's Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and the FDP benefited from dissatisfaction over spiralling national debt and stagnant income levels.

The CDU retained its position as Germany's largest party with 33.5 per cent and the Free Democrats jumped to 15 per cent.

The result marked a humiliating blow for Germany's venerable Social Democratic Party, which took just 22.5 per cent.

Meanwhile, Oba-Mao was not impressed. So now we have Germany and France for freedom, and soon England will join when the English dispose of their socialist Brown in the forthcoming elections. it was a good win for freedom worldwide.