Time magazine names German Chancellor Angela Merkel person of the year

Citing her moral leadership in a time of world crisis, Time Magazine has named German Chancellor Angela Merkel their “Person of the Year”.

In an essay on its website, Managing Editor Nancy Gibbs celebrated Merkel’s steady, guided leadership during this year’s succession of emergencies on the European continent: the possibility of Greek bankruptcy, Russian aggression in the Ukraine, the refugee crisis and, finally, the terrorist attacks in Paris.

The news came in as Ms Merkel’s spokesman Steffen Seibert was leading a government press conference in the German capital, while Ms Merkel herself was at an event in Leipzig.

As the first female Chancellor of Germany, Angela is a powerful female figure in golbal politics.

Even Trump’s friend and former Celebrity Apprentice contestant, Piers Morgan thought the honor should go to the outspoken Republican presidential candidate, but TIME thought otherwise, putting him in third place behind the victor German Chancellor Angela Merkel and runner-up ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.

Ms Merkel, 61, is just the fourth woman since 1927 to be chosen and the first since opposition leader Corazon C. Aquino of the Philippines in 1986.

Donald Trump, who was actually on the cover of Time in August, took the news as an opportunity to disparage Merkel’s leadership on Twitter. While Time runs a reader poll, the Person of the Year decision is ultimately made by the magazine’s editors. Angela Merkel was born in 1954 in Hamburg, West Germany. That is one of her other accomplishments as well. She has committed to accept 800,000 this year.

It has gone to other generic groups in the past too, including last year’s award which went to medics fighting the Ebola outbreak in western Africa. “They picked person who is ruining Germany”.

It is noted that her speeches are usually very monotonous and she often looks weird when in front of the camera, but why German people are delighted with her is this very ordinariness and competence which are highly valued with the Germans.