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El gráfico muestra a los candidatos para el liderazgo de la Unión Demócrata Cristiana (CDU).
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POLÍTICA

El partido de Merkel elige nuevo líder en anticipación de la elección alemana

By Jordi Bou

January 16, 2021 - Cuando Angela Merkel se prepara para retirarse tras 16 años en el cargo, su partido Unión Demócrata Cristiana elige nuevo líder – y posible nuevo canciller de Alemania – en anticipación de la elección federal de septiembre.

The empty chair at the top of the country’s biggest and most powerful party, CDU, is due to be filled at a special party gathering in Berlin on April 25.

Barring any surprise candidacies, delegates will choose between Armin Laschet, the centrist state premier of North-Rhine Westphalia and closest to a Merkel continuity candidate, the veteran rightwinger Friedrich Merz, and Norbert Röttgen, a foreign policy expert.

Merkel’s protegee, Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, threw the party into turmoil in February by saying she would not stand as chancellor in the next federal election, due by Oct 2021, and would give up the CDU party chair.

Kramp-Karrenbauer resigned when the CDU was tainted by a political scandal in the state of Thuringia.

A deal with the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), now annulled, put a liberal in charge of Thuringia thanks to AfD and CDU votes. It broke a post-war German taboo: no deals with the far right or far left.

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PUBLISHED: 15/01/2021; STORY: Graphic News
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