a months of political gridlock coming to an end as i m going arkell s a sworn in as head of a new coalition government and i call took the oath of office from bundestag president both i m sure you go in front of lawmakers who earlier narrowly voted to reelect her as chancellor for an operation comes after a near six month struggle to form a government local secured her fourth term after finally convincing her conservatives and the center left social democrats to come together for another grand coalition. the bonus talk vote was tighter than expected all doctor i m going to marry the doctor i m glad he has the necessary majority of at least three hundred fifty five votes and has been elected chancellor according to article sixty three paragraph two of the constitution if you believe. do you accept the result. yes mr president i do. thank you with that merkel was officially elected to a fourth term miss chancellor. it s her third time in
doctor i m going to marry the doctor who has the necessary majority of it at least three hundred fifty five votes and has been elected chancellor according to our sixty three paragraph two of the constitution you ve written do you examine the result. yes mr president. would that merkel was officially elected to the fourth term miss chancellor. it s her third time in a grand coalition the social democrats. it took a while for medical to win over the s.p.d. but in the end the junior partners offered their congratulations. on the chancellor remains the chancellor and that s cause for happiness and i think this is good news for the citizens of our country and good news for europe. who do not wish to open. but at least thirty five members of merkel s coalition failed to support her in the
a social democrat party roots vote whether this is the democrats who are willing whether they want to they said they didn t want to but were willing to once again go into this so-called grand coalition so cliff averted by the german chancellor and her party and that stability that she so stands for maintained here in germany talking about mathematics michel are lawmakers voting earlier to reconfirm chancellor merkel as chancellor and she needed three hundred fifty five votes she got three hundred sixty four so nine more than she needed what do you think that s says about how much support she has in this coalition government. well really it s if you do the mathematics and you it s a similar margin it s about ninety four percent of those who should have voted for her because they are in her coalition in her own party bloc and that s pretty similar to two thousand and five so it s and it s by no means as close as it has
and the government will have to answer or hundred of course be very important in the field of migration and then we see a very substantial change ok we re going to talk more about this we re getting these live pictures from the underside of the voting has just ended we re going to the bundestag right now and our correspondent there michelle acuff they re looking at the chancellor right now and binder results on the line the defense minister theirs will functionally like and let s bring in michelle acuff there at the bundestag if we couldn t ask her what we know so far about the vote and how it s going i m michelle i can you bring us up to date place. yes absolutely well you can probably see behind me what looks like very small shelves that well they ve been closed so that s where the m.p. s just a while ago picked up their voting cards they are now all inside that ballot box that now will be taken outside to be counted there s seven hundred nine m.p. s in the german born this time and
the bonus top vote was tighter than expected while dr. doctor i m glad he has the necessary majority of at least three hundred fifty five votes and has been elected chancellor according to article sixty three paragraph two of the constitution. do you accept the result. yes mr president i do. with that merkel was officially elected to a fourth term chancellor and it s her third time in a grand coalition the social democrats. it took a while for america to win over the s.p.d. but in the end the junior partners offered their congratulations. to the chancellor remains the chancellor and that s cause for happiness and i think this is good news for the citizens of our country and good news for europe. who do not history.