BERLIN: German Chancellor Angela Merkel will put a hard-fought coalition deal to a vote on Monday by her conservative party, which is expected to give its approval after she moved to quash a rightwing rebellion.

Officials from Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU), the party she has led for nearly 18 years and steadily moved towards the political center, are gathering from 0900 GMT in Berlin.

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