The 62-year-old 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.
Leading members of Ms Merkel’s Christian Democrat party (CDU) met in Berlin this afternoon to prepare for the party's last annual conference before September's election.
Ms Merkel has already served 11 years as chancellor of Europe's biggest economy.
Some 55% of Germans want Ms Merkel to serve a fourth term, with 39% against, an Emnid poll published in the Bild am Sonntag newspaper showed today.
[rte.ie]
20/11/16
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