Cabinet Merkel

Cabinet Merkel

The cabinet of Angela Merkel is the current government of Germany since November 22 2005, during the 16th legislature of the "Bundestag". Led by the Christian-democrat Angela Merkel (the first female chancellor in German history), it is supported by a grand coalition of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), Christian Social Union of Bavaria (CSU), and the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). It followed the Cabinet Schröder II.

Composition

The current federal cabinet (as of November 21, 2007), consists of the following Ministers:

Formation of the Grand Coalition

Neither the coalitions of the CDU/CSU and the Free Democratic Party (FDP) nor the SPD and Alliance '90/The Greens had the vote of a majority of members of the "Bundestag" following the 2005 federal election, so they decided to form the second grand coalition in the history of the federal republic.

The two groups, the CDU/CSU and SPD, received nearly the same vote in the election (35.2% and 34.2%), so they decided that they would receive the same number of posts in the cabinet, eight (with six for the CDU and two for the CSU). On October 13, the SPD announced their future ministers, and on October 17, the CDU/CSU announced theirs.

Edmund Stoiber (CSU) was to become the Federal Minister of Economics and Technology, but refused the post on November 1, followed by a conflict with Angela Merkel over the abilities of the minister to succeed him.

The coalition agreement ("Koalitionsvertrag"), titled "Together for Germany. With courage and humanity", was signed and accepted by the congress of the CDU, CSU, and SPD on November 12, 13, and 14. Angela Merkel was elected Chancellor of Germany on November 17, and the cabinet was officially in power from that date.

Parliamentary support

* November 22 2005: Election of Angela Merkel to chancellor; by 397 votes against 217

See also

* Cabinet of Germany

References

[http://www.auswaertiges-amt.de/diplo/de/Infoservice/Terminologie/Bundesregierung/Englisch.pdf Official English names of German ministers and ministries (German Foreign Office)]

External links

* PDF| [http://www.cdu.de/doc/pdf/05_11_11_Koalitionsvertrag_Langfassung_navigierbar.pdf "Gemeinsam für Deutschland. Mit Mut und Menschlichkeit] |659 KiB , the agreement of the coalition of November 12 2005 between the CDU, SPD, and CSU.
* , from the SPD official website.

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