Angela Merkel told senior members of her Christian Democratic Union that she’ll run again as party leader and seek a fourth term as German chancellor, ending months of speculation over her political future. The chancellor delivered her decision in a speech to a meeting of the CDU’s executive board in Berlin on Sunday, according to three people who were present. Assuming she is re-elected CDU chairwoman, she would then contest federal elections in the fall of next year as her party’s candidate to be chancellor. “This removes any last bit of uncertainty,” Carsten Nickel, an analyst for Teneo Intelligence, said by phone from Brussels. “Even if they don’t agree on everything, people know her, they know what to expect from her.”More from thestar.com:

Source: thestar November 20, 2016 17:16 UTC