German conservative challenger Angela Merkel of the Christian Democratic Party reacts after she was welcomed by party members in Berlin on Monday, Sept. 19, 2005, one day after the German parliamentary election. Germany's political leaders on Monday wrestled over who will form a new government after voters rejected Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder's seven-year-old coalition but left Angela Merkel's conservative party without a clear mandate to deepen economic reform. (AP Photo/ Jan Bauer)