Angela Merkel to run for 4th term as Chancellor, politician says

[Tennis]

http://edition.cnn.com/2016/11/15/eu...l-fourth-term/

(CNN)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.

First female Chancellor

Merkel, 62, is the daughter of a Protestant minister and was brought up in communist East Germany.
She entered Germany's parliament in the first post-unification election, serving in ministerial posts and as the leader of the opposition before she was finally elected Chancellor in 2005. She became the country's first female leader
She was re-elected Chancellor in 2009 and 2013.

Merkel has been a leading figure in the fight against the region's financial crisis. She has blocked bailouts, rejected proposals, denied pleas and stood up to the rest of Europe.

While citizens in France, Spain, Italy and Greece voted out her counterparts, Merkel has been re-elected with one of the strongest mandates in the history of modern Germany.

Sounds good!
I can't wait to see how much more good Chancellor Merkel can do in another term. She needs to continue being a leader in the response to the refugee crisis and taking severe action on any EU states that do not want to cooperate with Germany.

From the looks of things, she is by far the best option for Deutschland.

[GennGreymane]

You should run Tenn!

[Tradewind]

You should run Tenn!

lol that would involve him leaving his cozy suburban ontario life.

[Reinhard von Lohengramm]

You know the one thing I really wish they brought up in the Trump vs. Clinton debates was how they (Obama and Clinton) praised Angela Merkel's Refugee Policy when it was "Open Doors. Say anything and you're a racist and will be arrested" but then pointed out how she's had to go back on a lot of what she said and how her party has lost big in the local elections since then.

[NED funded]

I'm fine with anyone, as long as they are not from the AfD

[Deleted]

Germany needs term limits, badly.

[Tennis]

Germany needs term limits, badly.

Why? What good would that do.

[Deleted]

I can't wait to see how much more good Chancellor Merkel can do in another term.

Assuming she gets elected again*

[lonely zergling]

I would prefer a 4th term of Merkel over the leftists winning. Fatsiggies SPD+ radical LEFTIST party + pro pedohilia GREENS = worst thing that could happen to this country.

Atleast we know that Merkel regrets what she did with the refugees and that she returned to a more conservative stance lately, mistakes happen. But leftists would leave nato and infest politcs with sjwism.

[Cerilis]

That bitch. Right now, just after she moved another possible opponent out of the way.

Then again, all other parties will likely send in the clowns anyway.

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I admittedly don't follow German politics too much, but who even stands as opposition leader and is said person good/strong enough to kick her of the post?

[May90]

Imagine 4 terms of Trump... The horror.

Seriously, why is there no limitation to the number of chancellor terms in Germany?

[Tennis]

Imagine 4 terms of Trump... The horror.

Seriously, why is there no limitation to the number of chancellor terms in Germany?

Why should there be? There are no limits in most places. Don't assume the world must conform to one system.

[Deleted]

I can't wait to see how much more good Chancellor Merkel can do in another term. She needs to continue being a leader in the response to the refugee crisis and taking severe action on any EU states that do not want to cooperate with Germany.

So, you want Merkel to throw Germany (AfD) Europe right into the populism and nationalism arms?

Every since she lost the local elections, she is moving back to more conservatives policies and EU is finally setting away from punishing the states.

[Tennis]

So, you want Merkel to throw Germany (AfD) Europe right into the populism and nationalism arms?

Every since she lost the local elections, she is moving back to more conservatives policies and EU is finally setting away from punishing the states.

True but it's hard to project that far in the future. In the short term though, she can do a lot of good with another term in office. She could just be moving to conservative policies till she wins the elections.

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True but it's hard to project that far in the future. In the short term though, she can do a lot of good with another term in office. She could just be moving to conservative policies till she wins the elections.

Not until. Permanently, Europeans can't stand more lies from the ivory towers.

[JohnBrown1917]

Germany needs term limits, badly.

Thats for Germany to decide, not you.

[Deleted]

Her work is not done yet, Germany still functions. Bring more violent non-documented illegal immigrants, oh, I mean "refugees"!

[JohnBrown1917]

Atleast we know that Merkel regrets what she did with the refugees and that she returned to a more conservative stance lately, mistakes happen. But leftists would leave nato and infest politcs with sjwism.

That American phenonem does not really exist in European political parties.

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That American phenonem does not really exist in European political parties.

But it does. It's called multikulti in Germany.