A chaotic, painful and unpredictable race begins at the head of the CDU as well as the succession of Angela Merkel, the lady who has reigned for fifteen years over German political life. Tuesday, to everyone's surprise, a fourth candidate was added to the list of contenders. The chairman of the Bundestag's foreign affairs committee, Norbert Röttgen, is the first to declare himself officially.
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To add to the confusion, the interested party revealed his ambitions at the time of a press conference, and this at the very moment when, at the headquarters of the CDU, in Berlin, the outgoing president, Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, in a concern to control his exit, received behind closed doors his other potential successors. AKK had, on February 10, to announce its future resignation after the regional election of Thuringia, where the elected and liberal of the FDP had allied with the AfD to make elect one of theirs.
The ambitious Friedrich Merz, 64, was the first to leave the office he coveted yesterday,
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