Chancellor Merkel announces that she seeks a new term as the leader of CDU in Berlin, on November 20, 2016. (Photo: Chinanews.com/Peng Dawei)
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has won a new two-year term as the leader of the country's main conservative party.
The vote came after a speech, in which she expressed determination to prevent a repeat of last year's huge migrant influx.
"Not all of the 890 000 people that came here last year will be able to stay here, but every single one will be seen as an individual, not as an anonymous part of a mass. Every single concern will be checked. Dear friends, we have discussed this in our party convention in Karlsruhe last year, and we have repeated it again and again since then: A situation like the one in the late summer of 2015 cannot, should not and must not be repeated," said Merkel.
In the speech, she also advocated a partial ban of face-covering veils.
In the vote, Merkel ran unopposed, with 89.5 percent of delegates at a congress of her Christian Democratic Union (CDU) voting in her favor.
Merkel has also expressed an intention to seek a fourth term as chancellor in next year's German elections.
