A new head of government will soon be elected after the highly popular incumbent chose to end her 16 years in the top job.
Angela Merkel will not seek reelection for German chancellor. Merkel, who has served since 2005, will step aside and let a different person lead the European Union’s strongest economy and most populous member state.
Her successor’s election is expected to be a close one and might not be decided for weeks. Germans went to the polls in a national election that was too close to call on Sept. 26.
The center-left Social Democrats (SPD) mounted a strong challenge to Merkel’s conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) of Germany colleagues.
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