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Spiegel: Merkel wants fourth term in power
TheLocal.de ^ | 03 Aug 2015 10:20 GMT+02:00

Posted on 08/03/2015 11:47:24 AM PDT by Olog-hai

According to Germany’s most influential political magazine, Spiegel, Angela Merkel has decided to run for a fourth term in power and has already started talks on who will run her campaign. […]

If Merkel were to be re-elected in 2017 and then serve a whole four-year term, she would have been chancellor for 16 years, thus tying Helmut Kohl (CDU), who was chancellor from 1982-1998, as the longest serving chancellor in the history of the Bundesrepublik (the post-1945 German state). …

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TOPICS: Germany; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 4thterm; eurobanking; europeanunion; eussr; merkel

1 posted on 08/03/2015 11:47:24 AM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

Ruling longer than Hitler, but less than Kaiser Wilhelm II.


2 posted on 08/03/2015 11:50:20 AM PDT by henkster (Where'd my tagline go?)
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To: henkster

AND THERE WILL STILL BE KNOW GREEK RESOLUTION.


3 posted on 08/03/2015 11:53:43 AM PDT by magua
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To: Olog-hai

4 posted on 08/03/2015 11:54:18 AM PDT by wolfman23601
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To: Olog-hai

She just may get the 4th term, provided the German equivalent to a Constitution doesn’t forbid it. Many Germans seem to trust Merkel’s method and philosophy on the EU, and related fiscal matters. However, I think many more Germans want her to slow down the rates of immigration, especially from people who don’t wish to assimilate, as with Turkey.


5 posted on 08/03/2015 11:56:03 AM PDT by lee martell (The sag)
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To: Olog-hai

of course she does. nobody wants to give up power.


6 posted on 08/03/2015 11:59:26 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: henkster

I was going to say that a Hitler mini-me is waiting in the wings!


7 posted on 08/03/2015 12:14:16 PM PDT by GilGil
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