Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel has announced that she is about to retire politics by 2021.
Merkel, was depicted as the iron woman of Germany, said that she enjoys good health. She expressed hope that she will conduct another life after walking out of the public spectrum.
She pointed out that she understands the repeated questions about her health.
However, she affirmed that she is able to shoulder the burden of the chancellorship despite of bouts of palpitation from time to time. She went on say that she is very interested in her personal health.
It is worth to mention that Merkel was born on 17 July 1954 in Hamburg in then-West Germany and moved to East Germany as an infant when her father, a Lutheran clergyman, received a pastorate in Perleberg.
She obtained a doctorate in quantum chemistry in 1986 and worked as a research scientist until 1989.
She is a German politician who has been serving as Chancellor of Germany since 2005. She served as the leader of the centre-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) from 2000 to 2018. She has been widely described as the de facto leader of the European Union so she considered as the most powerful woman in the world.
She entered politics in the wake of the Revolutions of 1989, and briefly served as a deputy spokesperson for the first democratically elected East German Government headed by Lothar de Maizière in 1990.
Following German reunification in 1990, Merkel was elected to the Bundestag for the state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, and has been reelected ever since.
As the protégée of Chancellor Helmut Kohl, Merkel was appointed as the Federal Minister for Women and Youth in Kohl's government in 1991, and became the Federal Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety in 1994.
After her party lost the federal election in 1998, Merkel was elected Secretary-General of the CDU before becoming the party's first female leader two years later in the aftermath of a donations scandal that toppled Wolfgang Schäuble.
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