a surprise europe's longest serving elected leader is aiming for something no modern day chancellor has managed before her controlled exit from politics of the missing woman's pocket acted so i won't run again as party leader at the next cd you party conference in hamburg. this is fourth term is my last as the chancellor of germany. machall became the first woman at the top of the c.d.u. in the year two thousand surprising nearly everyone the newcomer from the east led her party's break with its political idol helmut kohl over party funding scandal even though cool was her mental the determination and power instinct the party saw there was also what it would get over the next eighteen years. those who refused to accept that the c.d.u. was no longer a gentlemen's club soon learned the hard way one by one her competitors had to go.