MUNICH (YBH.ME) – Voters in Germany ignored Al Qaeda threats and trade union pressures to hand Angela Merkel and her coalition of  Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and the Bavarian Christian Social Union (CSU) and Free Democrats Union (FDU) parties a decisive election victory, assuring 4 more years of  center right leadership.  The win was a strong voter repudiation of the indebted government style of the Green and Social Democrat parties.

Angela Merkel wins second term.

A relieved Merkel, the first German chancellor to hail from the communist east, spoke to a roaring crowd of supports, stating “What counts for me is that we got a change in the shape of the government.”

Germany watchers expect tax cuts for business and a general pro-business government leading forward.

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