Angela Merkel
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"Angela Dorothea Merkel" is a German politician and a former research scientist who has been the leader of the Christian Democratic Union (Germany)/Christian Democratic Union (CDU) since 2000 and the Chancellor of Germany since 2005. She is the first woman and the first citizen of the former German Democratic Republic to hold either office.

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Germany cannot go over Poland's head.

We know from the 2002 election experience that a lot can happen in the final metres of the race. That's why we're now sticking so close together as a party.

I would want them to decide to have babies. But every woman has to make her own choices.

Never before in my political life have I been taken so seriously as woman.

I find it trivial.

And I think that a woman as chancellor can also serve as a good example.

I am not here for women only, but also for women.

The race isn't over until September 18 at 6 p.m.,