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’.
Twilight of the chancellor - Merkel’s defeat
Tue, 06 Sep, 2016 - 01:00
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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.

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