BERLIN: Chancellor Angela Merkel on Monday (Tuesday in Manila) overwhelmingly won the blessing of her conservative party for a hard-fought coalition deal, a relief for the veteran leader who has been weakened by party infighting over five months of political impasse in Germany.
At a congress of Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU), the party she has led for nearly 18 years, delegates voted in favor of a government pact hammered out with the center-left Social Democrats (SPD).
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