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BERLIN: Germany’s newly elected parliament held its first meeting on Tuesday and elected a lawmaker from the center-left Social Democratic Party as speaker of the 736-member lower house, or Bundestag. German Chancellor Angela Merkel attended the session although she is no longer a lawmaker. She sat in the visitor stands of parliament. Merkel’s Union bloc finished behind the Social Democrats …

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