Merkel’s House of Cards Collapsing as Allies Fear Being Out-Trumped
SputnikNews.com
10.11.2016
German Chancellor Angela Merkel is facing going into next year’s federal elections – seeking her fourth term – without the backing of her sister party of decades and other allies keen to distance themselves from her “establishment” credentials, following Donald Trump’s victory in the US.
Merkel is already facing an uphill battle ahead of next year’s election, having drawn severe criticism within her own country and abroad over her generous ‘open doors’ policy to refugees, which saw more than a million asylum seekers flood across Europe to seek a new life in Germany.
The German Chancellor heads the center-right Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU), which campaigns and fields candidates across all Germany except Bavaria, where her sister party, the Christian Social Union (CSU) — led by Horst Seehofer — hold sway.
She first drew the ire of Seehofer towards the end of 2015, when he railed against her inability to get to grips with the increasing burden that arriving migrants were having on German federal state budgets and resources — not least his, with Bavaria — in the south of Germany — bearing the brunt of arriving migrants.
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