German Chancellor Angela Merkel has announced her intention to seek a fourth term next year despite losing support over her refugee policy.

Merkel, who has already served 11 years as chancellor, said on Sunday that she was expecting the upcoming general election, probably in September 2017, to be "more difficult than any before".

"I thought about this for an endlessly long time. The decision [to run] for a fourth term is - after 11 years in office - anything but trivial," she said after a meeting of senior members of her Christian Democrats.

Merkel is widely seen as a stabilising force in Europe amid uncertainty after Britain's vote to leave the European Union, and as a bastion of western liberal values after the election of Donald Trump as the next US president.

However, her decision last year to open Germany's borders to about one million refugees, mostly from war zones in the Middle East, angered many voters at home and dented her ratings.

The 62-year-old conservative said she faced "challenges from all sides", stressing that pressure from the right was particularly strong.

"We have a strong polarisation in our society," she said.

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/11/angela-merkel-seek-fourth-term-german-chancellor-161120181747375.html

So what happens if this statement to seek for a fourth-term in power was given by an African leader?
I guess the developed countries will shout 'blue-murder'.

Power is sweet anywhere, either in city or the jungle

And these same set of clowns will open mouth to criticise Mugabe and Bid a of Cameroon....

She should resign and give a younger generation chance to contribute to the growth of the country, if it is an African country now they will start to write rubbish, Yaya Jammer of Gambia is coming for 4th term after 22 years in power but western countries are mounting pressure, any person that stayed for more than 10 years in office anywhere in the world should step down.

... Merkel.. I do NOT like her.