German Government Rejects Report Merkel to Step Down in 2015
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The German government said that Chancellor Angela Merkel intended to serve out a full four-year term if she won federal elections on Sept. 22, rejecting a newspaper report that she planned to step down early.
Merkel, who took office in November 2005, has told confidants that 10 years is the maximum a chancellor can tolerate, Germany’s biggest-selling Bild newspaper reported today, citing extracts from a Merkel biography by its chief political columnist, Nikolaus Blome. It didn’t give a source for the story.