A conservative centrist tandem against a loner and a right-handed tribune. The headliners are refined in the competition which opens in Germany for the succession of Annegret Kramp Karrenbaeur at the head of the CDU and, later, Angela Merkel at the Chancellery. Tuesday morning, to everyone's surprise, it was a duo composed of Armin Laschet, Minister President of the North Rhine-Westphalia region, and the Minister of Health, Jens Spahn who applied to the journalists. A quarter of an hour later, he was followed by Friedrich Merz, already an unsuccessful candidate for the same position, in December 2018.
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There are now only three of them, including the chairman of the Bundestag's foreign affairs committee, Norbert Röttgen, to claim supreme power. An exceptional congress, scheduled for April 25 in Berlin, will decide between the trio for the leadership of the Christian Democratic Party. In stride, in December, and after consultations with the small Bavarian brother party
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