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German Chancellor Angela Merkel announces run for fourth term
German Chancellor Angela Merkel put an end to months of speculation about her political future by saying she would seek a fourth term in next year's federal elections.
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She is up against a rising populist tide propelling the AfD, an extreme right wing party, to her shoreline. Like Clinton, she may find herself drowning in anti-establishment sentiment. Everywhere in the world you see populist candidates getting elected, the product of totally failed, corrupted and discredited ruling government elites. The repercussion for several powerful populist leaders on the world stage at the same time, chanting nationalist supremacy...is war.