Angela Merkel's 16 years: It matters not what she did, it matters how she did it

On September 26, Germany held parliamentary elections, according to the results of which the name of the new German chancellor will be announced. For the first time since 2005, Angela Merkel will not lead the Christian Democratic Union and thus will not be able to apply for the post of the German leader. Pravda.Ru sums up the results of 16 years of Merkel's service as Germany's first woman chancellor. Angela Merkel did not want to run for federal chancellor back in September 2017. Barack Obama, who flew to Berlin, persuaded her to run for another term. Later, the 44th President of the United States confessed to his speechwriter Ben Rhodes that he noticed "a tear in her eyes." The Bundes Chancellor (since November 2005, after Merkel took this position, a "Chancellor" neologism in feminine gender appeared in the German language — Bundeskanzlerin) was to stand guard over the "free world." Her goals in particular were: