105) Pushers of fear porn insist nothing is happening but leaders like Theresa May, Emanuel Macron and Angela Merkel are systematically being removed from power. https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/12/angela-merkels-power-is-weakening-who-could-be-germanys-next-leader.html
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has seen her grip on power wane following an inconclusive election a year ago.
Now, leading a fragile and fractious coalition government, unpopular with voters and nervously watching the rise of the right-wing on the sidelines, Merkel is facing an open rebellion within her own party, the Christian Democratic Union (CDU).
This is leading Germany’s political establishment, and the public, to ask who and what will come after Merkel’s time in office comes to an end.
She has been chancellor in Germany since 2005 and has been widely seen as a safe pair of hands, steering the euro zone’s largest economy through the financial crisis.
