Merkel gets heckled at election event

Record ID: 909246

  • Title: Merkel gets heckled at election event
  • Date: 6th September 2017
  • Summary: TORGAU, GERMANY (SEPTEMBER 6, 2017) (REUTERS) ***WARNING CONTAINS PROFANITY*** BANNER ON WALL READING (German) 'A WARM WELCOME, ANGELA MERKEL' GERMAN CHANCELLOR ANGELA MERKEL ARRIVING (COVERED BY UMBRELLAS) WIDE OF PEOPLE GATHERED, AUDIO OF WHISTLING PEOPLE IN RAINCOATS AND UMBRELLAS, WHISTLING SIGN READING (German) 'DISPOSE OF MERKEL' SIGN READING (German) 'THOSE WHO VOTE FOR MERKEL, ABANDON GERMANY' AND 'BRD (WEST GERMANY) IS WALKING LIKE SCHAEUBLE DOES' PEOPLE HECKLING WIDE OF MERKEL SPEAKING ON STAGE (SOUNDBITE) (German) GERMAN CHANCELLOR ANGELA MERKEL, SAYING: (DISTURBED BY WHISTLING THROUGHOUT) "The regions, the homeland is of great importance to the Christian Democratic Union." SIGN FOR "I HEART" AND ICON FOR 'MERKEL DIAMOND' MAN IN RAINCOVER HOLDING SIGN READING "ANGELA MERKEL" ON GERMAN FLAG COLOURS (SOUNDBITE) (German) GERMAN CHANCELLOR ANGELA MERKEL, SAYING: (DISTURBED BY WHISTLING) "I'm very sorry, dear Torgauers. Thank you for being here and waiting despite the noise and the rain." MERKEL POSTERS
  • Embargoed: 20th September 2017 19:13
  • Keywords: Angela Merkel elections Germany heckling
  • Location: TORGAU, GERMANY
  • City: TORGAU, GERMANY
  • Country: Germany
  • Topics: Government/Politics,Elections/Voting
  • Reuters ID: LVA0016XGHQH3
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: German Chancellor Angela Merkel was booed and heckled on Wednesday (September 6) at an election campaign event in Torgau, east of Leipzig - a feature at many of her rallies as resentment persists at her decision in 2015 to open Germany's borders to hundreds of thousands of refugees fleeing war in Syria and Iraq.
    That decision helped the rise of the anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, which punished her conservatives in regional votes last year.
    Merkel, 63, leads a "grand coalition" of her conservatives and the left-leaning Social Democrats (SPD) - a tie-up neither wants to repeat after the vote. Seeking a fourth term, Merkel is stressing her credentials as a global stateswoman.
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