BERLIN (AP) — Angela Merkel will seek a fourth term as Germany’s chancellor in general elections next year, the German news agency dpa reported Sunday.
Dpa, citing sources at the Berlin headquarters of Merkel’s Christian Democrat party, reported that the 62-year-old chancellor also will run to be re-elected as the party’s chairwoman when it holds its national convention next month.
Merkel is expected to declare her candidacy for chancellor at a press conference at the party’s headquarters later on Sunday.
A physicist by training, Merkel became Germany’s first female head of government in 2005. She also is the first leader of a reunited …read more
Source: KXAN
