Ever since the German election campaign started, polls indicated that Europe's longest-serving female Chancellor Angela Merkel was likely to emerge triumphant for a fourth term. After 12 years in office, first time voters don't even know a Germany without her.

The shy Protestant pastor's daughter from the Communist East known as "Kohl's girl" has come a long way, from physicist, to politician, to minister to head of Germany's conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU).


Her first outing …
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