Chancellor Angela Merkel has assembled her most persuasive lawmakers and lobbyists to persuade members of her center-right coalition to come out in force Thursday and vote for the European Financial Stability Facility.
Merkel's authority over her coalition is at stake because the coalition has turned into a fractious, squabbling band since it took office nearly two years ago. She has weathered several crises since then, including her party’s huge defeat in a regional election last March and the criticism from the United States and other allies when Germany abstained from a U.N. Security Council vote authorizing a no-flight zone in Libya.
But this time, analysts say Mrs. Merkel is facing her biggest test since becoming chancellor in 2005. She needs 311 of her coalition’s 330 legislators to vote for the facility if the measure is to pass without help from the opposition.
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