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• Exit polls show Angela Merkel wins fourth term; German right wing party makes big gains

  Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative bloc won a lacklustre victory in Germany's national election Sunday while the anti-migrant, nationalist Alternative for Germany party managed a triumphant entry into parliament, projections showed.

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  Sep 24, 2017
  
• Angela Merkel suggests ban on face-covering veils, tighter rules on migrants

  German Chancellor Angela Merkel won a new term Tuesday as the leader of her party after stressing her determination to prevent a repeat of last year's huge migrant influx and advocating a partial ban on face-covering veils.

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  Dec 6, 2016
  
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• Angela Merkel cites Germany’s migrant policy backlash for her party’s defeat in Berlin election

  Merkel's Christian Democrats suffered their second electoral blow in two weeks in Sunday's vote in the capital, slumping to their lowest level since 1990 in the state election in which voters rejected her open-door refugee policy.

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  Sep 21, 2016
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• Merkel’s party loses to anti-immigration nationalists in German state vote

  A nationalist, anti-immigration party performed strongly in a state election Sunday in the region where German Chancellor Angela Merkel has her political base, overtaking her conservatives.

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  Sep 4, 2016