‘She cannot recover’ Merkel faces ‘imminent demise’ as her party scrambles for new leader – IOTW Report

‘She cannot recover’ Merkel faces ‘imminent demise’ as her party scrambles for new leader

 

Express UK: The German Chancellor faces the end of her tenure in power, after 12 years at the helm of Europe’s largest economy, according to a key news correspondent.

Angela Merkel is “at the end of career” following her failure to form a government, according to Jenny Hill, the BBC’s Berlin correspondent.

Mrs Merkel has led the German government – and played a major role in the direction of the EU – for the past 12 years.

However, according to the bomshell interview, the German leader faces an “imminent demise” amid reports that her party is scrambling to find a “new voice for the country”.

Mrs Merkel is desperately trying to cling to power by tying up a grand coalition deal with the Social Democrats – but so far a deal has eluded her.

Jenny Hill told the BBC’s The World This Week: “This is her twilight. For Merkel, this is the beginning of the end.

“That feeling has grown since the failure of the coalition talks. It was there during the refugee crisis when some questioned her leadership.

“It was certainly there during the election when she pulled in a poor result for her party, but it’s at its highest right now.

“This really is going to be the end of things for her. She has been weakened by the election and her party is being torn apart by infighting.”

Mrs Merkel has failed to strike a coalition deal after three-way talks with the Free Democrats and the Greens collapsed last week.

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19 Comments on ‘She cannot recover’ Merkel faces ‘imminent demise’ as her party scrambles for new leader

  1. 1) It’s STILL gonna take MONTHS (unless the impossible – her resignation – happens)
    2) the CDU has NO replacement; Angie was quite as focused as Obama on that…no “threats” groomed.
    3) any new election *should* be to the benefit of the AfD…PLEASE PRAY FOR THEM (that’s the “Alternative for Germany” Party)

  2. @ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ November 27, 2017 at 7:38 pm

    > if the West survives, History will not be kind to either

    The longer “The West” survives, the less kind History will be to her children.

    (No hatred. This isn’t a foreign disease, destroying it’s host. But a cancer, destroying itself.)

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