Kramp-Karrenbauer and other possible chancellor candidates

2019-10-08T08:44:20.032Z

Armin Laschet, 58: As prime minister of the most densely populated German federal state, one is already a kind of small chancellor - so Laschet is already one step ahead of the rest. For a long time, the Christian Democrat, although since 2012 CDU-Bundesvize, not in the first league of German politics, but with his election to the head of government of North Rhine-Westphalia in June 2017 he arrived there abruptly. And unlike his SPD predecessor Hannelore Kraft, which excluded ambitions for the Chancellery, lets Laschet appropriate speculations run - or even fired them, as recently in a double interview with ex-Chancellor Gerhard Schröder: promptly proclaimed a bet on Laschets chancellor candidate in the Union. In the race for Angela Merkel's successor as CDU chairman Laschet had still waived, probably because of the strong competition of his compatriots Friedrich Merz and Jens Spahn. If Kramp-Karrenbauer does not become Chancellor candidate, and he wants, Laschet should have good chances this time.