Angela Merkel has been named as Time Magazine’s Person of the Year.
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“All year long he has been saying things that were counted as disqualifying – I’ve lost count how many times”, Time Managing Editor Nancy Gibbs said Wednesday on NBC’s Today about why Trump was not the top choice and came in third.
TIME named Merkel the “Chancellor of the free world” on their illustruious cover and poignantly said the politician was deserving of the award, having shown “steadfast moral leadership in a world where it is in short supply”.
“Europe’s most powerful leader is a refugee from a time and place where her power would have been unimaginable”The shy daughter of a Lutheran minister, Merkel slipped into politics as a divorced Protestant in a largely Catholic party, a woman in a frat house, an Ossi in the newly unified Germany of the 1990s where easterners were still aliens”. And finally, the carnage in Paris revived the reflex to slam doors, build walls and trust no one.
Runners-up on the list include ISIS’s Bakr al-Baghdadi (2nd), the Black Lives Matter Protest Movement (4th), president of Iran Hassan Rouhani (5th), Uber’s CEO Travis Kalanick (6th), and Caitlyn Jenner (7th).
Merkel, 61, is the first individual woman to be named TIME Person of the Year since 1986.
“Each time Merkel stepped in”. The migrant and refugee crisis challenged the principle of open borders.
Angela, who has been the Chancellor of Germany since 2005, has been at the center of major news events this year, including economic strife in the Eurozone and Europe’s ongoing migrant crisis. He claimed that he was the “big favorite” and accused Merkel of “ruining Germany”. Last year, a group of Ebola doctors and survivors won the title.
While Time runs a poll for readers to vote, the decision on winners is made independently by the editors.
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It is noted that her speeches are usually very monotonous and she often looks weird when in front of the camera, but why German people are delighted with her is this very ordinariness and competence which are highly valued with the Germans. “This is my fourth year editing it and I’ve developed a good poker face”.
