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Which German political party did Angela Merkel lead?
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Angela Merkel
Angela Merkel, the first woman to serve as chancellor of Germany, 2012.
Angela Merkel served as the leader of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), a center-right German political party.12
She was elected as the head of the party on April 10, 2000, becoming the first woman and the first non-Catholic to hold that position. Under her leadership, the CDU returned to power in 2005, marking the beginning of her tenure as one of the longest-serving chancellors in German history.21