"Disappointing"
: with a single adjective, Armin Laschet described the severe defeats recorded on Sunday in the first two test elections of his term as leader of the conservative party.
After a series of general comments on the ballot, the new leader handed the floor over to the head of the list in Rhineland-Palatinate, via a videoconference screen.
As if he wanted to highlight the essentially regional issue of voting and keep the lessons to be learned at bay.
Far from the press titles which announce a CDU
"in flames"
and the
"first test: negative"
for its new leader.
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Already last week, seeing the sanction vote approaching, his entourage had indicated that he could not be held responsible for a failure when he has only been in office for 50 days.
To the question of a journalist from
Spiegel
who asks him about the consequences of the vote for himself, and if he did not think of resigning from his post as Minister-President of North Rhine-Westphalia to pass
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