Angela Merkel to run for 4th term as Chancellor

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German Chancellor Angela Merkel will run for a fourth term in elections next year, a senior politician in her party told CNN on Tuesday.

"She will run for Chancellor," Norbert Roettgen of the Christian Democratic Union said on CNN's "Amanpour."

"She is absolutely determined, willing, and ready to contribute to strengthen the international liberal order. But we can't see the Chancellor or Germany as last man standing."

An electorate seeking stability
Germans have been waiting for months for clarity on whether Merkel will pursue a fourth term in next year's elections.

Another stint would be significant because a large part of the German electorate is looking for stability in uncertain times after the Brexit vote in Britain, the election of Donald Trump in the United States and the rise of populist movements in several European countries.

If she pursues the position, she'll be the favorite to win, political experts say, even though she is facing some backlash over Germany's refugee policies and the acceptance of hundreds of thousands of people fleeing Syria, Afghanistan and other nations.

Christian Democratic Union spokesman Jochen Blind said Merkel "will announce her decision in due time."

Holding the 'liberal order' together

On the Amanpour. program, Roettgen was asked whether Merkel was willing and desirous of "holding the liberal order, in the trans-Atlantic area, together."
"The Chancellor is a cornerstone of this political concept of the West as acting as a global player. So she will run, and she will act as a responsible leader," Roettgen said.


"But it would be impossible to rely only on one person. We need the West, and the West is indispensable.
"And this of course means fundamentally and indispensably also the participation and contribution of the strongest part of the West, and this is the United States of America."

Speaking after Trump's victory last week, Merkel laid out some ground rules, of sorts, for the incoming American leader.

"Germany and the United States," she said, "are joined by common values -- democracy, freedom, respect for the law and human dignity, regardless of skin color, religion, gender, sexual orientation or political beliefs.

"Based on these values, I offer close cooperation to the future president of the United States of America, Donald Trump."

Source: CNN

 

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