{"id":20243,"date":"2018-10-29T12:26:08","date_gmt":"2018-10-29T12:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=20243"},"modified":"2018-10-29T12:26:08","modified_gmt":"2018-10-29T12:26:08","slug":"german-chancellor-angela-merkel-to-step-down-as-party-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=20243","title":{"rendered":"German Chancellor Angela Merkel to step down as party leader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\"> (CNN)<\/cite>German Chancellor<a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2012\/12\/30\/world\/europe\/angela-merkel---fast-facts\/index.html\"> Angela Merkel<\/a> has announced she will give up leadership of her center-right Christian Democrat Union (CDU) party after 18 years in the post, German media has reported.<a href=\"https:\/\/rtlnext.rtl.de\/cms\/wegen-cdu-stimmverlusten-kanzlerin-merkel-ist-zu-verzicht-auf-parteivorsitz-bereit-4243213.html?c=ddbd\" target=\"_blank\"> <\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Merkel announced during a meeting with officials that she will not seek to run for re-election at the party&#8217;s convention in December. But she made clear that she wanted to remain as chancellor, a position she has held since 2005, <a href=\"https:\/\/rtlnext.rtl.de\/cms\/wegen-cdu-stimmverlusten-kanzlerin-merkel-ist-zu-verzicht-auf-parteivorsitz-bereit-4243213.html?c=ddbd\" target=\"_blank\">CNN affiliate RTL reported<\/a>, citing party sources.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">The announcement is a sign of Merkel&#8217;s weakened power within her own party, and waning popularity in the country.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN)German Chancellor Angela Merkel has announced she will give up leadership of her center-right Christian Democrat Union (CDU) party after 18 years in the post, German media has reported. Merkel announced during a meeting with officials that she will not seek to run for re-election at the party&#8217;s convention in December. But she made clear&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":20244,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20243\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}