Merkel Seen Defying Populists to Stay on Course to 2017 Vote
- ‘There is no alternative,’ says Berenberg’s Holger Schmieding
- Unpopular refugee policy diminishes Merkel’s authority: Spiro
Is This the Beginning of the End for Merkel?
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Angela Merkel’s humiliation in her political home state provides further evidence to her opponents that Germany’s first female chancellor has had her day. It may instead make her more likely to run for a fourth term.
The Alternative for Germany, or AfD, capitalized on public discontent with Merkel’s refugee policy Sunday to overtake her Christian Democrats for the first time in a state election, raising questions over her political standing ahead of the next federal ballot in the fall of 2017.