Merkel’s party to choose new leader ahead of German election
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BERLIN (AP) — Chancellor Angela Merkel’s center-right party is choosing a new leader this weekend, a decision that will help shape German voters’ choice of her successor at the helm of the European Union’s biggest economy after her 16-year tenure.
Merkel, now 66, has steered Germany, and Europe, through a series of crises since she took office in 2005. But she said more than two years ago that she won’t seek a fifth term as chancellor.
German Hillary is on her way out. She will soon waddle off into the sunset.
Or so the Germans would have you believe.
