German Chancellor Angela Merkel faced pressure from conservative allies on Sunday to run for a fourth term in 2017 after an opinion poll showed they could win an absolute majority if an election were held next week.
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Angela Merkel will run for a fourth term as Germany’s chancellor in 2017, according to a report in Der Spiegel, although she will not officially announce her candidacy until 2016.
According to the report, which cited undisclosed sources, Merkel has already scheduled a meeting with CDU Secretary-General Peter Tauber, who will run the election campaign.
Chancellor Angela Merkel has decided to run for a 4th term and is planning her 2017 re-election campaign.
The chancellor has controlled Germany considering that 2005 and in fact now governs in union having the Social Democrats (SPD). Not since Konrad Adenauer’s third term as chancellor ended in 1961 has the CDU/CSU ruled with an absolute majority.
“Der Spiegel” also said Merkel had recently discussed an election strategy with Horst Seehofer, the leader of the CDU’s Bavarian sister party, the Christian Social Union (CSU).
The check of one-, 860 people at large found that for the very first time because of the fact that June 2005 help when it comes to the CDU/CSU was in fact add up to which typically of every other…
Merkel will announce whether she plans to lead the conservative party into the next general elections in early 2016, the magazine noted.
Merkel’s chief of staff Peter Altmaier played down the idea of the chancellor running for a fourth term.
Merkel’s handling of the Greece crisis, in which she worked tirelessly to negotiate the blueprint of a deal with Athens, secured her support. The chancellor is on a hiking holiday in the Alps.
In a country that cherishes stability, Merkel is only the eighth post-war chancellor. Her CDU has no obvious successor.
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Merkel is so popular in Germany that one SPD leader, Schleswig-Holstein state premier Torsten Albig, said recently the SPD should not bother putting up a candidate to run against her in 2017. Neither were as popular among voters as Merkel.
