Angela Merkel
German politician, leader of the CDU, Federal Chancellor of Germany since 2005.
The first woman to be Federal Chancellor of Germany. Time magazine's Person of the Year (2015), the most powerful woman on the planet according to Forbes magazine. On November 15, 2016, she announced that she would run for chancellor for the fourth time.
On December 7, 2016, she was re-elected leader of the CDU for the fourth time with a view to running for chancellor again. 89.5 percent of the participants of the party congress in Essen voted for her candidacy.
According to a poll conducted in September 2015, Angela Merkel's policies are supported by 63% of Germans.
Merkel supported the introduction of sanctions against Russia amid the events in eastern Ukraine.
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