BREAKING NEWS: MERKEL WILL NOT RUN FOR PARTY LEADERSHIP IN DECEMBER AT PARTY CONFERENCE
"Der Spiegel" magazine reports that Angela Merkel is not running for re-election as leader of the Christian Democratic Union following yesterday's losses in the Hessian state election.
The CDU will hold its conference in December where a leadership election is planned.
There is a catch because she still wants to be Chancellor according to the German media.
She has apparently not given up the fight against opponents, but is trying to find a way to stay in power.
That is the sense of the situation for now.
Her move today comes after yesterday's dramatic losses for both her own CDU party and its junior partner in government, the SPD (Social Democrats), in the Hessian state elections-HESSIAN ELECTION POST 10/28/2018
With state elections in eastern German states where the AfD (Alternative for Germany) has greater strength next year, plus the national elections looming in 2021, Merkel is being forced to scramble to stay in power with her hope being she may get a few more years out of this.
(BEING EXPANDED MONDAY 830AM EASTERN)
There is a catch because she still wants to be Chancellor according to the German media.
She has apparently not given up the fight against opponents, but is trying to find a way to stay in power.
That is the sense of the situation for now.
Her move today comes after yesterday's dramatic losses for both her own CDU party and its junior partner in government, the SPD (Social Democrats), in the Hessian state elections-HESSIAN ELECTION POST 10/28/2018
With state elections in eastern German states where the AfD (Alternative for Germany) has greater strength next year, plus the national elections looming in 2021, Merkel is being forced to scramble to stay in power with her hope being she may get a few more years out of this.
(BEING EXPANDED MONDAY 830AM EASTERN)
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