{"id":20245,"date":"2018-10-29T12:26:31","date_gmt":"2018-10-29T12:26:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=20245"},"modified":"2018-10-29T12:26:31","modified_gmt":"2018-10-29T12:26:31","slug":"merkel-will-not-seek-re-election-as-cdu-party-chair-sources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=20245","title":{"rendered":"Merkel will not seek re-election as CDU party chair: sources"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-200771816342556199\" readability=\"81.2530120482\">\n<p class=\"speakable\">German Chancellor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/indepth\/features\/2013\/09\/201398141422433460.html\">Angela Merkel<\/a> has told leaders of her Christian Democrats (CDU) that she will not seek re-election as party chairwoman at a conference in early December, a senior party source said on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">Merkel, 64, has been CDU chairwoman since 2000 and giving up the role would start a race within the party to succeed her as chancellor. The euro fell to session lows on the news.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">The German news agency DPA, citing sources, tweeted that Merkel wanted to remain chancellor.<\/p>\n<p>Monday&#8217;s developments come after the CDU came home first but bled support in a vote in the western state of Hesse on Sunday, the second electoral setback in as many weeks for Merkel&#8217;s conservative alliance.<\/p>\n<p>Standing down from the party chair would allow a new CDU chairman or woman to build a profile before the next national election, due in 2021. Merkel&#8217;s favoured successor is CDU party Secretary-General Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer.<\/p>\n<p>Merkel&#8217;s weakness at home may limit her capacity to lead in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/organisations\/european-union.html\">European Union<\/a> at a time when the bloc is dealing with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/events\/brexit.html\">Brexit<\/a>, a budget crisis in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/italy.html\">Italy<\/a> and the prospect of populist parties making gains at European Parliament elections next May.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>German Chancellor Angela Merkel has told leaders of her Christian Democrats (CDU) that she will not seek re-election as party chairwoman at a conference in early December, a senior party source said on Monday. Merkel, 64, has been CDU chairwoman since 2000 and giving up the role would start a race within the party to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":20246,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20245","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=20245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20245\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}