Think about all those G8 G20 summits from the past 10 years.

The Bush ones, the Obama ones, the Trump ones, all those NATO summits too.

All these men sitting in the same rooms and the same dark suits.

But there's always one woman in the room.

She's wearing bright colors, she's quietly biting her time, listening, watching.

Presidents and prime ministers come and go, but the chancellor's still there.

Angela Merkel, the most powerful woman in the world.

But now, after 13 years as Germany's chancellor and 18 years as the head of its biggest party,

the CDU, Angela Merkel is finally planning her exit.

An earthquake, a bombshell, a day of destiny.

There's been no shortage of drastic descriptions for Angela Merkel's announcement.

It has always been my wish to carry out my state and party duties with dignity

and one day to leave them with dignity.

But I know that in politics, this cannot always happen in a planned way.

She recapped her time in office, talked about when she came into that position,

how she hadn't really expected to get it at a bit of a surprise.

I was born as a chancellor and not as a party president, I wasn't.

And of course, at the same time, pictures were running through our heads

that have been on German television in the last few days of when she actually did get that post.

And rather sort of a mousely took to the podium to accept the post

and to say that she would become the CDU leader.

And she then gave a sweeping recap over the years that she had held in office.

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