As Angela Merkel steps down in Germany, candidates sought to mimic her for the win
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Berlin — the world was still weeks, possibly even months away from confirmation of who the new German Chancellor will be on Monday, as the focus shifted toward forming a coalition government a day after national elections. Whoever eventually takes over the top job in Europe's biggest economy, the candidates spent weeks falling over themselves to prove who would most closely resemble outgoing Chancellor Angela Merkel.
As CBS News correspondent Chris Livesay reported, there was a new, Angela Merkel-shaped hole in global politics on Monday morning. After 16 years in office, the former research scientist and daughter of a Lutheran preacher was finally saying "aufedersein" as the leader of her country.
Merkel has been lauded as a bulwark of Europe who helped save the European Union from imploding during the Euro financial crisis.
