German Cancellor, Angela Merkel, to run for a fourth tern, a high politician in her party revealed

 German Cancellor, Angela Merkel

Angela Merkel, the German Chancellor is set to contest for a fourth term in elections next year, a senior politician in her party, CDU on Tuesday revealed to CNN.

"She will run for Chancellor," Norbert Roettgen of the Christian Democratic Union said on CNN's "Amanpour."

 

"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."

 

There have been so much expectation of Angela Merkel running for a fourth term and finally open up through a prominent political party member.

 

Even with some setback of consigning the German refugee policies and the welcoming of hundreds of thousands of refugees under her government, which majority came from Syria, Afghanistan and Africa countries countries, some political experts still believe she will come out victorious if she decide to run.

 

Christian Democratic Union spokesman Jochen Blind said Merkel "will announce her decision in due time."

 

On the Amanpour program, Roettgen was asked whether Merkel was willing and desirous of "holding the liberal order, in the trans-Atlantic area, together."

 

"The Chancellor is a cornerstone of this political concept of the West as acting as a global player. So she will run, and she will act as a responsible leader," Roettgen said.

 

"But it would be impossible to rely only on one person. We need the West, and the West is indispensable.

 

"And this of course means fundamentally and indispensably also the participation and contribution of the strongest part of the West, and this is the United States of America."

 

Speaking after Trump's victory last week, Merkel laid out some ground rules, of sorts, for the incoming American leader.

 

"Germany and the United States," she said, "are joined by common values democracy, freedom, respect for the law and human dignity, regardless of skin color, religion, gender, sexual orientation or political beliefs.

 

"Based on these values, I offer close cooperation to the future president of the United States of America, Donald Trump."

 

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