- 10 Feb 2020 11:30
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German link: https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/kramp- ... r-103.html
So Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, commonly abbreviated as AKK, announces she will step down from the leadership of the german conservative party CDU (Christlich Demokratische Union Deutschlands, Christian Democratic Union [of Germany]) and also announces she wont run for chancellor.
Which means the CDU has already lost its new leadership, after a long process of picking a new one, that would follow after Merkel.
The former conservatives might now end in a spiral of self destruction, just like the other former big party of Germany, the SPD, which has entered a steep fall and ran through a lot of party leaders in recent years. The reasons for the downfall of the SPD already apply to the CDU - the party is losing its voters, as a rule young people wont vote for it.
The CDU is also unique among germans parties in that its youth organization happends to be to the right, not the left, of the party consensus.
So Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, commonly abbreviated as AKK, announces she will step down from the leadership of the german conservative party CDU (Christlich Demokratische Union Deutschlands, Christian Democratic Union [of Germany]) and also announces she wont run for chancellor.
Which means the CDU has already lost its new leadership, after a long process of picking a new one, that would follow after Merkel.
The former conservatives might now end in a spiral of self destruction, just like the other former big party of Germany, the SPD, which has entered a steep fall and ran through a lot of party leaders in recent years. The reasons for the downfall of the SPD already apply to the CDU - the party is losing its voters, as a rule young people wont vote for it.
The CDU is also unique among germans parties in that its youth organization happends to be to the right, not the left, of the party consensus.
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