Correspondent in Berlin
An exceptional congress of the CDU will be scheduled from April 25 in Berlin to elect its new president. In the aftermath of a stinging electoral defeat in Hamburg, the Christian-democratic party of Angela Merkel tries to get out as quickly as possible of a deep crisis born from the election at the head of Thuringia of a liberal candidate with the votes AfD. Since this disastrous election on February 5 and the planned resignation of Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, a dangerous spiral has been hovering over the formation of ex-chancellor Konrad Adenauer, who has dominated German politics for three quarters of a century.
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Sunday, the CDU obtained only 11.2% of the votes in this prosperous Hanseatic city, endowed with a city-state status. Even if Hamburg has always been a social democratic bastion, which the SPD preserves by collecting 37% of the votes, its score brings it practically back to the year 1951 when the CDU had obtained, in the city-state of Bremen, the worst result of its history with 9%.
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