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Lawmaker: Merkel will run for 4th term
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GERMAN Chancellor Angela Merkel will run for a fourth term next year, a lawmaker in her conservative party said on Tuesday, though her spokesman brushed off the comments and said she would address the issue “at the suitable time.”
Norbert Roettgen, a lawmaker in Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union, told CNN that Merkel “will run and she will act as a responsible leader.”
The former environment minister, who is not in Merkel’s inner circle, did not say how he knew she had made up her mind to run in national elections in 2017.
But her aides have signalled in the past she is moving that way, in the wake of Republican Donald Trump’s United States election victory, Britain’s vote to leave the European Union and the rise of populist parties across Europe.
“She will run for chancellor,” said Roettgen, chair of the Bundestag foreign affairs panel.
“And she is absolutely determined, willing and ready to contribute to strengthen the international liberal order, but we can’t see the chancellor or Germany as last man standing.”
A pragmatist, Merkel has steered Europe through the eurozone crisis and the biggest influx of migrants into the continent since World War II.
Asked about Roettgen, a CDU spokesman said: “What the party leadership said remains valid: she will communicate her decision in due course.”
Merkel spokesman Steffen Seibert said on Tuesday: “She will address this question at the suitable time, as has been said many times in the past.”
The CDU holds its annual party conference early next month — a venue Merkel could use to say she will run again.
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