Twilight of the chancellor - Merkel’s defeat

GERMAN leader Angela Merkel is facing what her fellow citizens refer to as ‘Kanzlerdämmerung’ — meaning ‘twilight of the chancellor’.

A humiliating regional election defeat in her home district could see the demise of Europe’s most powerful and longest-serving leader.

Her Christian Democrats party fell to third place behind the centre-left Social Democrats and the anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany party.