Angela Merkel has announced that she wants to run for a fourth term as German chancellor in next year’s election, a sign of stability after Britain’s vote to leave the European Union and the election of Donald Trump as the next US president.
Despite a voter backlash over her open-door migrant policy, the 62-year-old conservative said she would stand again in the September election, ending months of speculation over her decision.
“I thought about this for an endlessly long time. The decision (to run) for a fourth term is – after 11 years in office – anything but trivial,” Merkel told a …read more
Source: Gulf times
