Angela Merkel, Germany's 'eternal chancellor', wins fourth term


German Chancellor and CDU party leader Angela Merkel and her husband Joachim Sauer arriving at a polling station during the general election in Berlin yesterday. Merkel is re-elected as chancellor for a fourth term. – AFP pic, September 24, 2017.

ANGELA Merkel has been derided as Europe’s “austerity queen”, cheered as a saviour by refugees and hailed as the new “leader of the free world”.

But as the pastor’s daughter raised behind the Iron Curtain just won a fourth term at the helm of Europe’s biggest economy, many Germans simply call her the “eternal chancellor”.


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