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Anonymous ID: 1e2e4d Oct. 30, 2018, 7:45 p.m. No.3670889   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>0903 >>0942

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Claim: Germany’s Angela Merkel To Step Down From Party Leadership After Humiliating Elections

Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel is to relinquish control of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) in December, sources have claimed, after yet another humiliating performance in a regional election Sunday.

>https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2018/10/29/claim-germanys-angela-merkel-to-step-down-from-party-leadership-after-humiliating-elections/

Anonymous ID: 1e2e4d Oct. 30, 2018, 7:50 p.m. No.3670961   🗄️.is đź”—kun

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Update 1400: Merkel makes it official

Speaking at a press conference in Berlin Monday afternoon, German Chancellor Angela Merkel made official the rumours that had been swilling over the course of the morning by announcing she would not be seeking another term as leader of the CDU party, but that she intended to remain leader of Germany until 2021 — a shrewd move that some observers have noted would preclude a coup against her in the next three years.

 

Describing Sunday’s election results as “bitter” in her speech, Dr Merkel said of her decision: “I feel the need to pause to think — I am certainly doing that, and I want the yesterday’s election to be seen as a cutoff point.”

 

Merkel’s decision to remain Chancellor despite relinquishing control of her own party goes against her own comments on the subject — she recently said the two should go hand-in-hand — but follow past form in Germany where handovers of power have been more gradual.