German Chancellor Angela Merkel, a top candidate of the Christian Democratic Union Party (CDU), attends an election rally ahead of the upcoming federal election in Annaberg-Buchholz, Germany August 17, 2017. REUTERS/Matthias Schumann
ANNABERG-BUCHHOLZ, Germany (Reuters) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel was greeted with shouts of "traitor" by a rowdy group of right-wing protesters in east Germany on Thursday as she defended her decision to allow hundreds of thousands of refugees into the country.
Roughly five weeks before an election in which she is expected to win a record-tying fourth term, Merkel veered from her stump speech, acknowledging "difficult times" in 2015 when a flood of asylum seekers, many from the Middle East, entered Germany.
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