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I just saw that there had been a previous edit removing Merkel from the infobox, before Mélencron reverted it. I have just conducted the same action of removing Merkel, unbeknownst to me that this had been contested. Since I have been also reverted (and it seems like this is an issue of contention, or will likely become one), I'm bringing this here.

In my opinion, the infobox depicts party leaders (or candidates, whenever party leaders are not the candidates themselves) at the time of the next election. Current leaders may be presumed to remain at their offices by the time the next election is held for simplicity purposes, but this is not the case when those have explictly announced their resignations/retirements/etc, as in the case of Merkel. Impru20^talk 15:12, 29 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]