Angela Merkel is Chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021. She will have worked with four French presidents, from Jacques Chirac to Emmanuel Macron, including Nicolas Sarkozy and François Hollande. During his last official visit to France on November 3, 2021, Emmanuel Macron presented him with the insignia of the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor. In the German legislative elections on September 26, 2021, the Social Democrats of the SPD came in first place, ahead of the CDU, the German Christian Democratic Union. In October 2021, Olaf Scholz (SPD) announced that he had reached a preliminary agreement to form a government with the Greens and the Liberals, to the detriment of the candidate Armin Laschet (CDU) supported by Angela Merkel for his succession to the chancellorship. Born in the GDR in 1954, this trained physicist was first elected to the Bundestag in 1990. Angela Merkel became a member of the CDU, which she led from 1998 to 2018. From 1991 to 1998 she held ministerial responsibilities in the government of Helmut Kohl, with whom he has tumultuous relations. In 2003, he opposed his party’s line on the war in Iraq. The elected chancellor, Angela Merkel, leaves her mark with firm decisions that involve budgetary rigor and welcoming immigrants. Maintains Germany’s pragmatic leadership in the European Union.
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