(ANSA-AFP) - BERLIN, 25 NOV - The German government on
Wednesday agreed on September 26 next year for the general
election to choose a successor to Chancellor Angela Merkel, a
government spokeswoman said. Merkel has said she will not stand
for a fifth term and will retire from politics next year after
16 years at the helm of Europe's top economic power and the EU's
most populous country. Her departure will mark a new, less
certain phase in German politics and at the heart of the
European Union, whose rotating presidency Merkel currently
holds. The government "proposes to the federal president the
date of Sunday, September 26, 2021 for the election of the 20th
Bundestag (lower house of parliament)," spokeswoman Martina
Fietz told reporters. President Frank-Walter Steinmeier must
still give his official approval. (ANSA-AFP).
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