--- title: Angela Merkel Wins Fourth Term as German Chancellor | TIME description: Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives beat their rivals on Sunday to win her a fourth term in an election that will also bring a far-right party into Germany's parliament for the first time in more than half a century, exit polls showed. canonical: https://time.com/video/IeP7Y3DM/ og:title: Angela Merkel Wins Fourth Term as German Chancellor og:description: Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives beat their rivals on Sunday to win her a fourth term in an election that will also bring a far-right party into Germany's parliament for the first time in more than half a century, exit polls showed. og:url: https://time.com/video/IeP7Y3DM/ og:image: https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/IeP7Y3DM/poster.jpg?width=720 og:type: video.other twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Angela Merkel Wins Fourth Term as German Chancellor twitter:description: Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives beat their rivals on Sunday to win her a fourth term in an election that will also bring a far-right party into Germany's parliament for the first time in more than half a century, exit polls showed. twitter:image: https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/IeP7Y3DM/poster.jpg?width=720 --- # Angela Merkel Wins Fourth Term as German Chancellor ## Video: Angela Merkel Wins Fourth Term as German Chancellor [Watch (HLS stream): Angela Merkel Wins Fourth Term as German Chancellor](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/IeP7Y3DM.m3u8) (1:33)  _Published 2017-09-24. Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives beat their rivals on Sunday to win her a fourth term in an election that will also bring a far-right party into Germany's parliament for the first time in more than half a century, exit polls showed._ --- Jul 27, 2023 10:39 PM UTC --- ## More From This Series [All Videos](https://time.com/video/) [Trump Extends White House Invitation to Chinese President Xi Jinping](/video/vtQD8oNh/) ### Trump Extends White House Invitation to Chinese President Xi Jinping [Jeremy Corbyn Re-Elected Leader of Britain’s Labour Party](/video/xCh4Rs3A/) ### Jeremy Corbyn Re-Elected Leader of Britain’s Labour Party [Chinese President Xi Jinping](/video/4R3xVjJa/) ### Chinese President Xi Jinping --- ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Angela Merkel Wins Fourth Term as German Chancellor","description":"Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives beat their rivals on Sunday to win her a fourth term in an election that will also bring a far-right party into Germany's parliament for the first time in more than half a century, exit polls showed.","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/IeP7Y3DM/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2017-09-24T21:31:29.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/IeP7Y3DM.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/video/IeP7Y3DM/","duration":"PT1M33S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/video/IeP7Y3DM/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}} ```