German Chancellor Angela Merkel has told a news conference on Monday that she will not be a candidate for a new mandate.
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Merkel attends a CDU leaders meeting in Berlin, on Monday, Oct. 29 (AP/Markus Schreiber)
Merkel rounded up all her decisions in one sentence - that she will not stand for any political office once her mandate as chancellor expires in 2021.
Angela Merkel has told leaders of her party that she will not seek reelection as party leader in December, Reuters reported earlier on Monday, citing a CDU source.
The agency noted that Merkel has been at the helm of CDU since 2000, and appraises that her giving up the role "will start a race within the party to succeed her as chancellor."
The decision was reportedly made due to poor results in local elections.
After Bavaria, the voters punished CDU and their coalition partners during yesterday's elections in Hessen, in the wake of the many months of internal strife.
CDU took the most votes - between 27 and 28 percent - but that was still a poor result as the party lost about ten percent.
German DPA agency is reporting that Merkel "plans to continue on as chancellor."
The new party boss will be a candidate for the next head of the German government, while early elections are not rule out, Deutsche Welle writes on Monday.
Good riddance! They should have taken out this trash year ago! But I guess it's never too late to flush the toilet
(Truth hurts., 29 October 2018 12:00)
She did great things (economically), but politically made many mistakes. Allowing so many refugees just walk into Germany, doing business with Putler, etc.
Vucic's friend is leaving, hope to see Vucic do the same.
(Avni, 29 October 2018 14:45)
She did great things (economically), but politically made many mistakes. Allowing so many refugees just walk into Germany, doing business with Putler, etc.
Vucic's friend is leaving, hope to see Vucic do the same.
(Avni, 29 October 2018 14:45)
@ avniaj- Vucic is the Albanians best friend at the moment...any other self respecting president would have already have squashed the occupation and put Pristina back in BG control long time ago...
Careful what you wish for!
(Watcher, 29 October 2018 15:50)
Watcher: "any other self respecting president would have already have squashed the occupation and put Pristina back in BG control long time ago... "
Which one? Nikolic, Tadic, Kostunica, Djindjic?
You pretty much have rotated through the whole political spectrum of Serbia, and the heads of state have pretty much done the same thing; What makes you think that a different one will or would have done things differently?
(Albanopolis, 29 October 2018 19:01)
Another Marxist Globalist bites the dust.She has destroyed her country and most of Europe with her open borders madness.The damage done by Merkel's immigration policies have not even been fully felt yet. The 'refugees' have now started bringing their families to Germany and begun breeding. Germany will be unrecognizable in one generation.
Merkel’s demise will be felt by totalitarian EU mostly.The appointed bureaucrat traitors, controlled by Soros and other globalist criminals are dead men walking.Globalization is dead. Sovereign nation states will start gaining control of their homelands and their civilizations .
(Leonidas, 29 October 2018 19:35)
(Watcher, 29 October 2018 15:50)
Are you talking about the same guy who once said "for every killed Serbs, we'll kill 100 Muslims?" Not only that he doesn't have self-respect, but doesn't have either. Just to stay in power he's lying you daily.
P.S. When it comes to Serbia moving towards Kosovo you can dream only. By the way forget Kosovo, worry about Vojvodina, Sandzak, Presheva Valley.
(Avni, 29 October 2018 19:48)
Another Marxist Globalist bites the dust.She has destroyed her country and most of Europe with her open borders madness.The damage done by Merkel's immigration policies have not even been fully felt yet. The 'refugees' have now started bringing their families to Germany and begun breeding. Germany will be unrecognizable in one generation.
Merkel’s demise will be felt by totalitarian EU mostly.The appointed bureaucrat traitors, controlled by Soros and other globalist criminals are dead men walking.Globalization is dead. Sovereign nation states will start gaining control of their homelands and their civilizations .
(Leonidas, 29 October 2018 19:35)
She is a professional turncoat who one time was working for FDJ propaganda department, had her first husband in Leningrad and than turned out, she is a very conservative Christian who stabbed Helmut Kohl.
Clever... but not enough. I won't miss her.
Soros & Co. aren't really globalists either. Just the opposite: try to purchase a simple dishwasher. If you buy it in Hungary, Greece or Russia - than it's a different one than if you buy it in, say, France.
You research for weeks which is the best - just to find out that the one you can buy has some letters different than the winner (in German or UK tests).
Turns out - it's the same dishwasher, but with reduced features. Apparently because we are second-class people. Even in the same market (EU). It's making profits at all costs, not "globalism".
(Honcho ( see the "bozgor"), 30 October 2018 15:30)
In the 1990s, Soros used his Open Society Foundation and his wealth to bankroll and fund revolutions in Europe, including Czechoslovakia, Croatia, and Yugoslavia. He achieved this by funneling money to political opposition parties, publishing houses, and independent media in these countries where he invested heavily in assets.He then used the politicians he bought in those countries to privatize all public assets thus allowing Soros to sell his assets and make huge profits (similar to former USSR)
In a May 2014 interview with CNN, Soros stated he was responsible for establishing a foundation in the Ukraine to overthrow Yanacovich and install a junta handpicked by the US State Department, headed by Hillary Clinton.It suffices to say that Soro’s nephew is married to C Clinton. His prize in Ukraine was the state-owned energy monopoly Naftogaz. Soros again had his US cronies advise the puppet government of Ukraine to privatize Naftogaz.Soros made $2 billion profit.
On the EU refugee crisis Soros’s agenda was fundamentally about the destruction of national borders. In 2015 muslim migrants were found to hold “Migrant Handbooks” on the island of Lesbos. It was later revealed that the handbooks, which were written in Arabic, were given to refugees before crossing the Mediterranean by NGO’s “Welcome to the EU” funded by Soros’s—the OPS.
I can write a whole book about Soros ataman.
(Leonidas, 30 October 2018 18:36)
Soro's NWO agenda of a world with no borders is well known.But at the same time everything Soros does is to line his own pocket.In the 1990s he supported UK membership of the Euro and on the other hand he was speculating and betting against sterling making him £1 billion richer .In South-East Asia he was spending money through his foundations for the promotion of his neo-liberal agenda and on the other hand betting against the currencies of those countries and driving their values down and creating hyper-inflation .Many farmers in Indonesia and Thailand were led to suicides as they couldn’t feed their families.
For Soros, it’s never enough money. That is what this is really about. Behind the curtains, you are dealing with a psychopath who cares nothing about the collective good and everything about his own net worth and the maintenance of the system he thrives. Nothing else matters to him.
He’d rather watch the world burn than lose money.
(Leonidas, 31 October 2018 20:54)