{"id":406515,"date":"2017-09-25T16:25:05","date_gmt":"2017-09-25T08:25:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/general-najib-congratulates-germanys-merkel-over-election-victory\/"},"modified":"2017-09-25T16:25:05","modified_gmt":"2017-09-25T08:25:05","slug":"general-najib-congratulates-germanys-merkel-over-election-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/general-najib-congratulates-germanys-merkel-over-election-victory\/","title":{"rendered":"General : Najib Congratulates Germany&#8217;s Merkel Over Election Victory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span id=\"newsPic2\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/newsdata2.bernama.com\/bernama\/newspic\/ge\/FW630402_5F96700057F879A0-scr.jpg\" border=\"1\" width=\"300\"\/><br \/><strong>Angela Merkel (Bernama file pix)<\/strong><\/span>KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 25 (Bernama) &#8212; Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak has congratulated German Chancellor Angela Merkel over her victory in Sunday&#8217;s federal elections.<\/p>\n<p>Najib said he looked forward to bringing Malaysia and Germany closer together.<\/p>\n<p>In a series of tweets today, the prime minister noted that at US$11.4 billion, Germany was the biggest European Union investor in Malaysia with the creation of 63,000 jobs.<\/p>\n<p>Najib said he had a productive meeting with the chancellor last year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;(I) look forward to many more,&#8221; he said. Najib made an official visit to Germany in September 2016 &#8211; his first since becoming prime minister in 2009 &#8211; at the invitation of Merkel.<\/p>\n<p>The election saw Merkel re-elected for a fourth term as chancellor after the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and the Christian Social Union (CSU) alliance won 33 per cent of the votes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; BERNAMA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Angela Merkel (Bernama file pix)KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 25 (Bernama) &#8212; Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak has congratulated German Chancellor Angela Merkel over her victory in Sunday&#8217;s federal elections. Najib said he looked forward to bringing Malaysia and Germany closer together. In a series of tweets today, the prime minister noted that at US$11.4 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5817,"featured_media":406516,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[67,59,32],"class_list":["post-406515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media","tag-bernama","tag-media","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5817"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=406515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406515\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/406516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}