German Chancellor Angela Merkel will relinquish her party presidency in the wake of a severe electoral setback in the election

As Syrializm analytics predicted German Chancellor Angela Merkel will leave the presidency of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) in December, a party official told AFP on the eve of a severe electoral setback.

After more than a decade as Chancellor.. Merkel announces its withdrawal from political life in 2021.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel told a news conference in Berlin on Monday that she would not run again for the presidency of her Christian Democratic Party after her party suffered a major loss in the local parliament elections in the German state of Hesse on Sunday.

Merkel has also announced that her current mandate as adviser is the last and she will even give up running for the next parliamentary elections, scheduled for 2021.

Merkel will leave all political posts after the end of her term.

“Merkel will not run for party leadership”, a party official said on condition of anonymity, confirming information in Der Spiegel magazine and the newspaper Hanelsblatt on their Web sites.

On Monday, Merkel will try to regroup her fragile government coalition after an overwhelming electoral defeat by the two major parties in a poll in his province of Hesse.

More urgent for Merkel, who delivered a speech today.

Such a scenario would mean the end of the government, early legislative elections and probably the end of Merkel’s career.

“The situation is dangerous for Merkel”, the newspaper Sueddeutsche Zeitung wrote in an editorial Monday.

The question is whether we should soon put on its alliance the phrase “under liquidation”.

The two major parties in the government of the chancellor in Berlin, the Christian Democratic Union and the Social Democratic Party, suffered heavy losses in the elections in the province of Hesse, a national test for Merkel and her team in Berlin.

Merkel’s party is certainly at the forefront and will be able to continue the rule of the province within an alliance, but only 27 percent of the vote, according to the final results, was 11 points lower than in the previous ballot. The Social Democratic Party (SPD) similarly fell to 19.8 percent.

The parties are like “two people drowning together because they are hanging together”, political expert Hans Vollinder of the University of Dresden told ARD.

On the other hand, environmentalists gained twice as much vote and gained 19.8 percent while the national right succeeded in entering the last local parliament in which they were not represented, after jumping by 13.1 percent.

The leader of the Social Democratic Party, Andrea Nalis, said on Sunday evening that she would withdraw from the government unless there were guarantees of better performance for the government, which has been undermined for months by internal disputes, especially over immigration policy.

“The current government situation is unacceptable”, she said.

A growing number of Social Democratic activists are demanding a move to the opposition for fear of the demise of their party.

The party is witnessing a rapid decline in opinion polls at the national level and the extreme right is ahead (16 percent versus 15 percent).

But in the coming days and weeks, Merkel will have to work on her conservative camp as resentment mounts.

It was the second disappointing local poll for the conservative German camp after the Bavarian elections two weeks ago.

This could fuel the debate within the Christian Democrats about Merkel’s future, which looks exhausted after 13 years in power.

Its popularity has not diminished since it decided to open the country’s borders to more than 1 million asylum seekers in 2015 and 2016, in conjunction with the rise of the anti-immigrant far-right.

Many of its party cadres are demanding more right-wing positions and are calling on Merkel to prepare her successor.

The chancellor will face a crucial test at the beginning of December at a conference of the Christian Democratic Union, where she plans to run for the post of party leader, who is considered indistinguishable from the post of prime minister.

But pressure is mounting to push her out on this occasion.

Although he is close to Merkel, the president of the Christian Democratic Union in Hesse Volker-Bouffier said the poor result in his district was a “wake-up call” for the movement “and for our president as well”.

Angela Merkel “will make a huge mistake” if she sticks to her position “because of her position”, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung newspaper reported.

“She has to prove that she understands what everyone knows is that the end of the Chancellor’s term is approaching”.