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New CDU boss Laschet
Photo: Michael Kappeler / dpa
He did it again.
Armin Laschet, the eternally underrated, also stumbled over and over again, is this Saturday at eleven thirty in a gigantic hall of the Berlin fair, which has been converted into a digital party conference studio in these days, and is the new CDU boss.
Really now?
Really now.
If you can believe him, Laschet never had any doubts that he would ultimately be elected as the successor to the outgoing chairwoman Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer.
The CDU politician was therefore firmly convinced of his dual strategy, which had also led him to the surprising election victory in the state elections in North Rhine-Westphalia in 2017: stay calm - and mobilize as much as possible on the home straight.
The surveys of the past few months, which mostly saw him only in third place behind his competitors Friedrich Merz and Norbert Röttgen?
The mood in the party, in which at some point people were almost worried about the candidate Laschet, who started as the clear favorite?
Has he successfully ignored.
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