Bush obama Blair Cameron and sheer rock western president s and prime ministers who came and went while a chancellor remains has been chancellor of germany for thirteen years she was once called the most powerful woman in the world or not any more tonight germany and europes miracle demo the end of a political era or has officially begun im broke off in berlin this is the day. Hes a few at the un this. Is my last is german chancellor of the budget and i dont want to start the next federal election twenty twenty one i will not run again in huntington to meet the next Party Congress in december and how i will not run for
reelection as a chat person up to see the union even though i have been chair of the c. D. U. In germany for over eighteen years now my party can now prepare itself for the time off to mean. Anything that does and i see this is an opportunity in which the party can look within and reflects the fact its a Great Development this is something we havent had an eighteen year
Do they have such a low profile we have our snoop around to catch a glimpse talking to the distributors of this starts june 10th w. This is day 8 of the news live from berlin merkel insists how government will press on the german chancellor says shes not planning any changes to the countrys Governing Coalition this out to the surprise resignation of the leader of the Social Democrats a move that promised a coalition can into crisis. Im
rebecca read his welcome to the Program German chancellor Angela Merkel got its get Markovic Governing Coalition took another bating today the later of its Junior Partner the Social Democrats and else to resignation even the future of both the party and germanys government in doubt Social Democrats and merkels conservatives were once the countrys 2 biggest parties lightly as they were plunging in Opinion Polls but mogul has promised to keep on with the task of governing. After a year in the top job at the s. P. D. Andrea now this says shes standing down
the capital and he will ask why his trip is dividing the country clubs blowing heads by more turbulence as it reveals that some of its 737 aircraft may have faulty parts airlines are being instructed to check the air worthiness of their plane hits and political leaders in germany brace for crisis talks as questions are raised over the survival of chancellor angela merkel s government is follows the shock resignation of andrea knowledges the leader of her social democrats called addition party. i m sorry welcome to the program in sudan around 5 people are reported to have been killed in the capital khartoum as the army moves in to break up a sit. and outside of its headquarters thousands have been protesting there for
and final term as chancellor and that would go until 2021 but of course they say resignation from andrea knowledges today has of course sent tremors through this coalition and has yet again brought into question the credibility of this government is it still stable enough to lead in the end was even stable enough in the first a place of course there were always concerns and criticism from both sides but particularly from the more left leaving wing of the social democrats that going into this government this governing coalition once again wouldn t give the social democrats the time and the space to redefine its profile but some that s also something which the conservative c.d.u. is also trying to do right now so radio have to say exactly how. and of course the 2 coalition parties actually intend on a continuing forward with this very fragile coalition now hands as we just heard merkel is very cane she wants to keep the government going wants to continue their
coalition partners are also licking their wounds after a terrible result in sunday s regional vote their leader andrea knowledges whose future in the job has also been questioned it was clear but lessons have to be learned at national level. you didn t write we are absolutely determined to ensure that we can continue our work in the coalition it needs more commitment and more determination to leave behind the problems of the past few months. in it for gun rights. opposition parties are already seizing their chance to capitalize on medicals weakness. america keeps america is giving up the wrong job this won t make government more stable it will merely slow the death of the coalition. for long. but the much diminished grand coalition will