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		</div><p>German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Sunday stood by her decision to open Germany&#8217;s borders to hundreds of thousands of refugees two years ago.</p>
<p>She has previously defended the move as a necessary response to a humanitarian emergency.</p>
<p>Asked during a pre-election television event with voters whether she would do things differently if faced with the same situation, Mrs Merkel said, in retrospect &#8220;I still think my decision was right&#8221;.</p>
<p>She added that her government had taken numerous steps to ensure the crisis is not repeated.</p>
<p>The influx of almost a million refugees to Germany in 2015 prompted sharp criticism of Mrs Merkel from some politicians on the right, including her conservative allies in Bavaria.</p>
<p>But Horst Seehofer, who leads the Bavarian sister party of Mrs Merkel&#8217;s Christian Democratic Union, appeared to back away Sunday from his long-standing call for a cap on refugees.</p>
<p>Mr Seehofer previously demanded an upper limit of 200,000 refugees per year.</p>
<p><i>&#8220;The situation has changed, Berlin has changed course,&#8221;</i> Mr Seehofer told public broadcaster ARD.</p>
<p><i>&#8220;We now have significantly less immigration than at the time when I made those comments.&#8221;</i></p>
<p>He was responding to a question about whether his Christian Social Union party would sign a new governing coalition agreement with Mrs Merkel&#8217;s party without a firm assurance that there would be a maximum number of refugees allowed in Germany.</p>
<p>Mrs Merkel has rejected such a cap.</p>
<p>Mr Seehofer said he would aim to ensure the measures already taken to reduce refugee arrivals are protected by a future government after the September 24 election.</p>
<p>Mrs Merkel told private German broadcaster RTL on Sunday that she would run for a full four-year term if she is re-elected next month.</p>
<p>Asked whether she would stand for election again in 2021, the 63-year-old chancellor said: <i>&#8220;That will be discussed again at the appropriate time.&#8221;</i></p>
<p>She repeatedly used the same phrase before committing herself to run in this year&#8217;s election.</p>
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