German Chancellor Merkel’s party picks Armin Laschet as new leader
2021-01-17 08:57:44 source：CNBC
January 16, 2021
FRANKFURT — Germany’s ruling CDU party picked Armin Laschet to be its new chairman on Saturday, possibly paving the way for him to replace Angela Merkel as chancellor at elections later this year.
Laschet is currently the prime minister of Germany’s North Rhine-Westphalia region, the most populous federal state in the country. He beat conservative rival Friedrich Merz by 521 to 466 in a vote that was forced online due to the coronavirus pandemic.
“I want to do everything so that we can stick together through this year ... and then make sure that the next chancellor in the federal elections will be from the (CDU/CSU) union,” Laschet said after the contest Saturday, according to a Reuters translation.
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