The President has congratulated German Chancellor, Angela Merkel on her re-election for a fourth term in office, as Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany.
This was contained in a statement signed by  Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on Monday.
President Akufo-Addo felicitated with the German Chancellor’s party for maintaining control over the German Parliament, the Bundestag.
“It is my sincere hope that Chancellor Merkel will continue on the path of delivering unity, security, progress and prosperity to the German people. It is also my overriding hope that the already strong Ghanaian-German relations will grow from strength to strength, on a shared agenda of freedom, development, progress and prosperity,†the President said.
He, however, wished the German Chancellor a successful tenure and continued success.
Background
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has been re-elected for a fourth term in federal elections, exit polls suggest.
Her conservative CDU/CSU alliance has won 32.5% of the vote, remaining the largest party in Germany's parliament, according to the ARD poll.
Angela Merkel will now have to form a coalition government - an arduous process that could take months – after sliding to about 32% of the vote 41.5% in 2013.
The 20% score of the centre-left Social Democrats (SPD) 20.0 is a new post-war low and the party has formally ruled out the possibility of a new “grand coalition†with the Christian Democrats: deputy leader Manuela Schwesig has said the party will go into opposition.
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